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“grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.”

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Author:Silvia Tennenbaum

“Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.”

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Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.”

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Author:Arthur Schnitzler

“Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?”

Men Doe Dog Gratitude Shame Ungrateful Benefactors

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.”

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Book:Bleak House: Easyread Edition

Source: Bleak House: Easyread Edition

“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.”

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Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

“Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.”

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Author:Lancelot Andrewes