Forgiveness
.(Ang.-Sax., forgifenes.)
“Forgiveness to the injured doth belong,
But they neʹer pardon who have done the wrong.”
“Proprium humāni generis, odisse quem laceris.”—Tacitus.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.