Cato the Elder
Politician, Orator
"I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own."
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Pardon
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"Pardon me I've got nothing to say."
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"Those who understand evil pardon it."
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"Cats know not how to pardon."
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"The offender never pardons."
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"Pardon me while I lower my voice."
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"He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon."
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"I pardon him, as God shall pardon me."
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"My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."
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"As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free."
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"You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong."
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"Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders."
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"Pardon's the word to all."
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"For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
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"Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object."
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"To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within."
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"I dont need a pardon. I need a job."
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"If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them."
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"What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company."
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"We pardon familiar vices."
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"The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income."
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"Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar. “What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot,” he added, helpfully."
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