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“A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 96.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aa4f9f1ca98b3607f06c1ac11da9b1e5e09e9a7726e710ab57bfe9a663ba56fc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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