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• Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Sibling, Tonight

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• Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

  Marie Antoinette

  Mean, Men, Feet

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• Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Spring, Home, Humility

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.185, Hamilton Books

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• I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.

  Loretta Chase

  Silence, Judgement, Nephew

  Loretta Chase (2015). “Lord Perfect: Number 3 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.

  Erich Segal

  Mean, Eye, Giving

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• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  Oscar Wilde

  True Life, Forgiving, Sin

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

  Timothy Pickering

  Jesus, Omission, May

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• 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
  'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

  Lewis Carroll

  Air, Confusion, Confusing

  Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.195, e-artnow

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• The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].

  Max Beckmann

  War, Blood, Boredom

  "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.

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• We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Christian, Kings, Men

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• When you sincerely embrace Jesus as your Saviour, and rest on His atonement for pardon, when you look to Him for daily direction, lean on Him for support, and are joined to Him in heart union, then you may be sure that you have got the everlasting rock bed underneath you.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Heart, Rocks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 234, 1895.

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Easier, Pardon Me

  Usenet article <199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org>, 1997.

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• What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

  Thomas Brooks

  Long, Giving, Honor

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1652.

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• The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Forgiveness, Might, Committed

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Philibert Joseph Roux, Part 1, LXXI, 1866.

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• Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial glory: for baptism is instituted for the remission of sins; and if a person does not take the necessary steps to obtain pardon of sins, of course, he cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

  Orson Pratt

  Men, Water, Baptism

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• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Thinking, Fire

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Expedition to Earth”, p.195, RosettaBooks

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• I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

  Emily Bronte

  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.398, Penguin

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• He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

  Francis Quarles

  Hats, Repentance, Repent

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• What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughter, Said, Provoking

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.208

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

  Charitie Lees Smith

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Self, Degradation, Pardon Me

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• Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

  Pamela Moore

  Air, Water, Als

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