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    A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
    —Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)