"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Mistake, Thoughts, Man, Wine

"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!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Mistake, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Faults

"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"Mistakes show us what we need to learn."

Peter McWilliams, American Writer

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"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

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"Our first and last love is self-love."

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"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

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"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."

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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

"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!"

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

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

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."

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

"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires."

"Mistakes show us what we need to learn."

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it."

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

"Our first and last love is self-love."

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."

"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."