Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
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