The Philadelphia Story is a fantastic classic film starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and directed by George Cukor.
There's a part toward the end where the Hepburn character, Tracy Lord, has arrived at a new level of understanding in her life, and her heart, and she's happy, and she sighs exuberantly, "Oh - the time to make up your mind about people is - never!"
She's saying, always give people a chance to come around to being their best selves and having their own clear, honest, and magnanimous understanding - like, don't be too hard on people.
It's a sweet sentiment, easy to have in happy circumstances, yet the poet Maya Angelou advised us, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
In other words, don't keep on forgiving someone and being magnanimous and generous, and then they just end up harming you again.
And again and again....
Chuck Berry put it like this: "Don't let the same dog bite you twice."
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