Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Wish
  • Vanity
  • Sensation