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Ingratitude quotes

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“It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received...” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1)
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