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Alan Paton Quotes: There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
         

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.


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There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
         



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