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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.

Source: Quoted in: Rambler, no. 87 (15 Jan. 1751; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale Edition, vol. 4, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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