"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."

Man, Men, Error

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"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."

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