| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Indulgence |
| | | A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin. | 1 |
| Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. Juvenal. | 2 |
| Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Plautus. | 3 |
| Indulgence, twin sister of guilt. Mme. Necker. | 4 |
| Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. Mme. Swetchine. | 5 |
| Had doting Priam checked his sons desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. Shakespeare. | 6 | | |
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