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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. -- William Congreve
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. -- Samuel Richardson
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised. -- Frederick the Great
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. -- Karl Kraus
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. -- John le Carre
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. -- Sophocles
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. -- Lord Chesterfield
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
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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