Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.
We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.
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