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  • Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

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  • Marlene Dietrich Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld ''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Walt Whitman All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Before confessing, be perfectly certain that you do not wish to be forgiven.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Ovid Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgotten is forgiven.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • George Herbert He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aesop Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Cyril Connolly The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Hazlitt The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Louis Dudek What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
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  • Salman Rushdie Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Albert Camus Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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