The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
Tom Browne · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 72
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The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
Tom Browne · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 72
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