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========== Back in Ancient Rome, the philosopher Cicero
described gratitude as the mother of all virtues.This concept of being thankful has been stressed
in religion and philosophy for a long time.Back in 1820 Scottish philosopher Thomas Brown
defined gratitude as “that delightful emotionof love to him who has conferred a kindness
on us.”But scientifically, gratitude doesn’t qualify
as a basic emotion like joy, sadness or anger.There’s no universal facial expression for
it. As an emotion, gratitude is a little hardto define.Today the Oxford Dictionary defines gratitude
as “the quality or condition of being thankful;the appreciation of an inclination to return
kindness.” And we’ve only really startedto study gratitude scientifically in the past
30 years.In a 2015 study, pa...