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What's a good parable or morality tale doing something in revenge so that ends up hurting the revenge-taker?

Not just that a person shouldn't take revenge, but that it usually backfires and hurts the person taking the revenge more than the person who was supposed to be hurt by the revenge.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

    PS 137:9

  • 1 decade ago

    Sweeny Todd story

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