Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. – Johannes A. Gaertner

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. – Cicero

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. – Author Unknown

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