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“Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 206.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7bb411f5e00d2b8aa0b2329ffe90a87f0c786eefe3a45cc0fedfd8313c7d4fa7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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