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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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