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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled wit

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. – Eli Siegel

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Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. – Henry S. Haskins

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Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

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Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

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The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. – William Osler

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. – William Shenstone

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. – Arthur Symons

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