WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:32:02 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg gratefulness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Essay (1888-03), “Beggars,” sec. 4 Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3 https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/75274/ https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/75274/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:30:35 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=75274 Gratitude without familiarity, gratitude otherwise than as a nameless element in a friendship, is a thing so near to hatred that I do not care to split the difference. Until I find a man who is pleased to receive obligations, I shall continue to question the tact of those who are eager to confer them.


Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-03), “Beggars,” sec. 4 Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3
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