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“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“A nation rushing hastily to and fro, busily employed in idleness.”
—Phaedrus (c. 1st century A.D.)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)