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Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BCRelated quotes
“The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.”
Robert Walpole (1676–1745) British statesman
Prime Minister
Source: Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "Hazlitt, in his Wit and Humour, says, 'This is Walpole’s phrase'". Compare: "La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits" (translated: "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits"), François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 298.
“Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”
Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer
Source: One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
“I may be kind,
And meet with kindness, yet be lonely still;
For gratitude is not companionship.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.”
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696) French noble
L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits.
Lettres.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Betrayals
