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“We do also, unfortunately,” replied my father, “for indeed I had rather have been for ever ignorant than have discovered so much depravity and ungratitude in one I valued so highly.”

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

Have I been faithful to thy sire now dead, Have I protected thee from Humber's hands, And doest thou quite me with ungratitude?

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

"We do also, unfortunately," replied my father, "for indeed I had rather have been for ever ignorant than have discovered so much depravity and ungratitude in one I valued so highly."

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft