“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
“Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.”
"The Big Story", speech to the Texas State Historical Association (7 March 1997), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 131
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