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Forgetting a wrong is a mild revenge

Posted by ESC on April 18, 2003

In Reply to: Quotation: Forgetting a wrong is a mild revenge posted by E. Gaffney on April 18, 2003

: I am looking for the origin and any other info on a saying "Forgetting a wrong is a mild revenge". Thank you in advance.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge. Regional distribution: Texas. First citation: 1732 Fuller, "Gnomologia." From A Dictionary of American Proverbs edited by Wolfgang Mieder & Others (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992).

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