“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“4925. There is no usual Rule without an exception.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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