“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
Robert Byrne (1928–2013) American chess player and writer
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“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”
— Victor Hugo, book Les Misérables
Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
Variant: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Source: Les Misérables
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