"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."

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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."

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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

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"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder."

Paul J. Meyer, American Businessman

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"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."

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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

Jessamyn West, American Author

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."

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