The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) Greek orator and statesman
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Attributed in Hugh Percy Jones, A New Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations (1900).

 
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