Extract from Denis Diderot's 'Jacques the Fatalist'
"You can do nothing for me. I'm heartbroken that I owe you anything, and I'll never again owe you anything. You do more harm with your insults than you do good with your deeds. If I had the money I would throw it in your face, but I haven't got it so my daughter will become whatever God pleases and my son will get himself killed if necessary. As for me I'll go begging but it won't be at your door. I'll not incur any more obligations towards such a wicked man as you. Make sure you get yourself paid out of my oxen and horses and implements - and much good may it do you. You were born to make people ungrateful and I don't want to be ungrateful.
Goodbye forever."
~Denis Diderot, 'Jacques the Fatalist'
"You can do nothing for me. I'm heartbroken that I owe you anything, and I'll never again owe you anything. You do more harm with your insults than you do good with your deeds. If I had the money I would throw it in your face, but I haven't got it so my daughter will become whatever God pleases and my son will get himself killed if necessary. As for me I'll go begging but it won't be at your door. I'll not incur any more obligations towards such a wicked man as you. Make sure you get yourself paid out of my oxen and horses and implements - and much good may it do you. You were born to make people ungrateful and I don't want to be ungrateful.
Goodbye forever."
~Denis Diderot, 'Jacques the Fatalist'
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