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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes: It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
         

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.


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