| 单词 | to know is to forgive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know (all) is to forgive (all) c. to know (all) is to forgive (all). [Probably after French savoir c'est pardonner (1836 or earlier); compare quot. 1860.] ΚΠ 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Nov. 277/2 The French proverb which says, Savoir c'est pardonner, ‘To know all, is to forgive all’. 1899 Strand Mag. June 703/2 Dear Hugo—I know all: and to know all is to forgive all. 1899 Jrnl. Proc. & Addr. 38th Ann. Meeting (National Educ. Assoc.) 79 ‘To know is to forgive’, as the proverb has it. 1914 Virginia Law Reg. 20 636 In judging human beings we should emphasize their excellencies rather than defects. As has been said, to know all is to forgive all. 1952 K. Fuller Silken Cord xv. 175 After all, to know all is to forgive all, as my poor dear father used to say. 1994 D. Irvine Massenet (1997) xiv. 178 He understands Werther's torment, and ‘to know is to forgive’. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. 16 She seems motivated by the idea that to know all is to forgive all, less because her parents deserve forgiveness than because she can't bear to hate them. < as lemmas |
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