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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - Jo

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – John Powell

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. – James Gordon Bennett

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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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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. – Chinese Proverb

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies

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