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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Forgiving

"Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not"

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Ray Bradbury Author
Forgiving

"You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
Forgiving

"It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross."

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