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Dean Acheson

"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."

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"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."

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

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

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

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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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"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."

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"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."

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