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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg 
58% of people like this quote
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
56% of people like this quote
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
54% of people like this quote
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
50% of people like this quote
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
50% of people like this quote
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
46% of people like this quote
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