“ 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 no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live. ”
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726). copy citation
Author | Jonathan Swift |
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Source | Gulliver's Travels |
Topic | ingratitude crime mankind |
Date | 1726 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm |