There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

-Cowper,William
  Letter to Rev William Unwin,7 Sep.

It's anindulgencetosit ina roomand discuss yourbeliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Sara. Watch on  the Rhine, act 2.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasteröso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilöso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

-Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.1.