“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.”
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10978-2003Apr11, April 13, 2003.
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