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