Wir sollen immer verzeihen, dem Reuigen um seinetwillen, dem Reuelosen um unseretwillen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 25.
“Laughter always forgives.”
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
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