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Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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