“When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”

— Henry Fielding

Source: Tom Thumb the Great (1730), Act I, sc. iii

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“When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”