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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

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Marriage
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Mistakes
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Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. – Aubrey Menen

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Mistakes

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. – Ornette Coleman

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Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. – David Augsburger

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Mistakes

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasnt arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and Im going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx

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Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad. – Terri Guillemets

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