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La Rochefoucauld 225: What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the gi...
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What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. ["The first foundation of friendship is not the power of conferring benefits, but the equality with which they are received, and may be returned."--Junius's Letter To The King.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_225
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