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“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“[He] didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
—Jewish Proverb (20th century)