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- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
- Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- A motion to adjourn is always in order.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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