Quote by Sydney Smith
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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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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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

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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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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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Never say, “oops.” Always say, “Ah, interesting.” – Author Unknown

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