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> [“I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/i-was-a-young-man-who-attempted-to-make-up-for-his-ignorance-with/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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> [On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/on-the-whole-though-i-never-arrived-at-the-perfection-i-had-been-so/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil-thomson/a-libretto-that-should-never-have-been-accepted-on-a-subject-that/)

[Virgil Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil-thomson/)

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