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When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough,
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

— Henry Fielding The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

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Source: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1730), Act I, scene 3.
Work: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, 1730
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