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  ...of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world.--SOUTH.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.--GOETHE.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.--PLAUTUS.
And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. --YOUNG.
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.   --AUSONIUS.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.--NAPOLEON.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. --SHAKESPEARE.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. --PUBLIUS SYRUS.
INNOCENCE.--We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of...   Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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