"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

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Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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