Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.
George CanningBut of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
George Canning