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

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  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.

-Proust, Marcel
  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.

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