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“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 226.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 599620ee43c58e9c46bbec06edcea6ad4e0168570132285623e1c95b489fe9ce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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