"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass."

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"I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties."

Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist

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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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"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure."

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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!"

"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."

"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."

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