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What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the benefit.
What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the benefit.
Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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- Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Gratitude · anthology attribution: La Rochefoucauld
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