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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

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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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

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

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Mistakes

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor

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Mistakes

As long as the world is turning and spinning, were gonna be dizzy and were gonna make mistakes. – Mel Brooks

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The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know? – Stanley Clarke

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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. – Elihu Root

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut

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