Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."
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Benefactors
10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elizabeth I
Queen
"He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is."
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