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" Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Error
Only
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" Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. "
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" Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. "
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" I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. "
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True
Action
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Admiration
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