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"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Character
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
Age
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
Love
"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Friendship
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
Religion
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
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