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“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.”

Forgiveness fails when pride will not receive it · Essay collected in The Image of the City

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Charles Williams

20 September 1886–15 May 1945

On a crisp September morning in 1886, in the shabby-genteel precincts of Holloway, North London, Charles Walter Stansby Williams entered a world that would never quite know what to make of him. The only son of Richard Walter Stansby Williams and Mary Wall, young Charles was born into circumstances that trembled on the…

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