Quote by Alexander Pope
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. -

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. – Alexander Pope

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

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For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. – Alexander Pope

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A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

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He who excuses himself accuses himself. – Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des sentences

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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. – Billy Sunday

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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. – Florence Nightingale

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