βI shouldnβt like to punish anyone, even if theyβd done me wrong.β βGeorge Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
βA person canβt help their birth.β βWilliam Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
βBut to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.β βJane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
βEvery Fool can do as theyβre bid.β βJonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)
βSo likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.β βKing James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)
βGod send every one their heartβs desire!β βWilliam Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)
βNow this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.β βSir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)
βIf β¦ a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayneβ¦β βWilliam Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)
βAnd whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a GoddΓ©s nameβ βGeoffrey Chaucer, The Pardonerβs Tale (~1380)
βΓΎan hastely hiΘed eche wiΘt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiΘt houndes alle heie wodes, / til ΓΎei neyΘΓΎed so neiΘh to nymphe ΓΎe soΓΎe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / βtil they came so near, to tell the truth]β βWilliam and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)
βBath ware made sun and mon, / AiΓΎer wit ΓΎer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]β βCursor Mundi (~1325)
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