We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet

“Gifts,” Essays: Second Series, No. 5 (1844)
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