"What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away."
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""Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial"
"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."
"He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him."
"The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling."
"He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of."
"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
"Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty."
"A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is."
"Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/."