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> [The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-schmitt/the-exception-is-more-interesting-than-the-rule-the-rule-proves/)

[Carl Schmitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-schmitt/)

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> [A good marriage is the exception that proves who rules.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-somerset-maugham/a-good-marriage-is-the-exception-that-proves-who-rules/)

[William Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-somerset-maugham/)

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> [“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ariel-levy/if-you-are-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule-and-the-rule-is-that/)

[Ariel Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ariel-levy/)

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> [“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-modern-evil-we-have-said-greatly-turns-on-this-that-people-do-not/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [“if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ariel-levy/if-you-are-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule-and-the-rule-is-that-2/)

[Ariel Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ariel-levy/)

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