“If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.”

— Walt Kelly

Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
Context: (After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:) If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.

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American cartoonist 1913–1973

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