• He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик