All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them imm… - Robert Payne

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All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

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His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them. - Robert Payne

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