"We Grown-ups"
GRATITUDE DON'T EXPECT ITI You have no right to gratitudo just because) you do a fellow a good turn. Unless it be gratitude for the luck that mndo it possible for you to do it. and gratitude to the follow j'ou did tho good turn for, because he gave you tho chance. Whoever does a good turn for another does a bettor one for himself. You are in his debt, seeing that through him you have helped two—him and yourself. If somebody you've helped, is ungrateful, be careful about telling anybody how much he owes you. Remember, you aro still his debtor. In any case, the dog that bites the hand that feeds it is a very common dog; and the fellow who forgets in prosperity the fellow who helped him in adversity is a very common fellow. If you meet the other sort you're lucky! But though no man has a right to exact gratitude for a good turn, no man worthy of the namo will withhold it. But even when the fellow you've helped is ungrateful, it doesn't hurt you, but it does hurt him. Ingratitude has power only to hurt the ingrate. M. Preston Stanley.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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