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Tag Name "Pardonable" (9)

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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
Agnes Repplier
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It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
Frederick The Great
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Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
Thomas Jefferson
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
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If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
Archibald Rutledge
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
John le Carre
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Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield
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Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas Jefferson