The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. -Alexander Pope

 

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.


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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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