indulge quotes

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortunemay naturally indulgeina few delinquencies.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Scenes of Clerical Life, ch.25.

Nous sommes tous oblige  s, pour rendre la re  alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

- Marcel Proust
  A la recherche du temps perdu,'A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'.

   Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

-Janet Reno
  Opposing the death penalty. In the NewYorkTimes,15 May.