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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Source: Essays, Gifts (First Series), 1841.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.

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