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 the stirring of some chance chord calls up an involuntary remembrance, it will quickly be silenced and cast out of the thoughts. Let us not flatter ourselves into the convenient belief that we generously, and with Christian leniency, forgive the injuries we receive (and who is so insignificant that he receives none?) if we keep a strict account of their sum and magnitude. Not one single one of them is fully pardoned until it has been plunged beneath the waters of Lethe!