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"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
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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."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
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