Quote by James Bryce
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. – James Bryce

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No one is listening until you make a mistake. – Anon.

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Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

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Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. – Alfonso de Cartagena

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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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