Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel."
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Ungrateful People
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Douglas Wilson
Author
"God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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