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Mistake Quotes by George Eliot
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and…
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are…
- Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
- Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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