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“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 298.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6e6a726dc79d803d3f18f56b33cc972420d6b8953c5308e4c53f7ee67192b7d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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