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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

Lord Chesterfield

1748

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 1 July 1748.

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. — Lord Chesterfield

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