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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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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

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No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves. – Proverb

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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. – Edward Phelps

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. – John Peel

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