I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying,

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

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