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“There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
“In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“It is part of the irony of life, that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence,...” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?” Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet
“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
“We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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