16th Century English Proverb

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“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
—Aesop (6th century B.C.)

“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)