the House of Commons, Walpole, watching those who voted against him, said to the one who sat near him. “Young man, I will tell you the history of all these men as they come in: That fellow I saved from the gallows. And that one, from starvation. This other one’s son I promoted.” In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift gives us his opinion of ingratitude to friends and benefactors when he thus describes the laws of the Lilliputians: “Ingratitude is reckoned among them a