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    By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
    you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
    [Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
    scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that read more

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair

by Douglas Adams Found in: Errors Quotes,
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I read more

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

by Issac Newton Found in: Errors Quotes,
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you read more

Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

by William Cowper Found in: Errors Quotes,
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

by Edward J. Phelps Found in: Errors Quotes,
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To err is human.

To err is human.

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