“Too great a hurry to be discharged of an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”

—  François de La Rochefoucauld, book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Le trop grand empressement qu'on a de s'acquitter d'une obligation est une espèce d'ingratitude.
Maxim 226.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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