"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."
— Forgiveness

January 1, 1970

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Heinrich Heine, Statement of 1848, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 91.