"Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as……" — Jonathan Swift

"Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live."

— Jonathan Swift

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