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PARDONS

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Those ends in war the best contentment bring,
Whose peace is made up with a pardoning.




Quotes of the Day

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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