thanked-for

Updated: June 8, 2025

Kindness that is thanked-for surely brings degradation a degradation almost as mean as the subscription acknowledged in a newspaper, or the anonymous contribution kept secret temporarily in order that its later advertisement may excite the more applause. Out flashed this blazing truth: kind acts must be instinctive, natural, thoughtless.

Algernon Blackwood - A Prisoner in Fairyland