offenders never pardon

offenders never pardon

1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 561 The offender never pardons.

1672 DRYDEN Conquest of Granada II. I. ii. Forgiveness to the Injur’d does belong; But they ne’r pardon who have done the wrong.

1876 I. BANKS Manchester Man III. xiii. He was of Mrs. Ashton’s mind, that, ‘as offenders never pardon’, Augusta needed a friend.


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