„Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.“
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice, Assassin's Apprentice
„There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.“
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— Robert Harris novelist 1957
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„The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.“
— Charles A. Reich American lawyer 1928
The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IV : Consciousness II, p. 78
„I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low.“
— Og Mandino American author 1923 - 1996
The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Context: I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91.
„Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.“
— Ovid Roman poet -43 - 17 a.C.
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea), Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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„It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.“
— W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874 - 1965
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„Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.“
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
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„My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.“
— Jack Vance American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916 - 2013
Showboat World (1975), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
„Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender, or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?“
— Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 6.
„I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.“
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