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“Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardonthe pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“A word perhaps loud spoken you may get,
Or hear our feet when heavily they tread;
But he who speaks, or him whos spoken to,
Must both remain as strangers still to you.”
—Jones Very (18311880)
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