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La Rochefoucauld 438: There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits ...
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There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us. ["And understood not that a grateful mind, By owing owes not, but is at once Indebted and discharged." Milton. Paradise Lost.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_438
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