“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
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