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Vittorio Alfieri
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“To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.”

Vittorio Alfieri Rosmunda

D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Rosmunda, III, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 665.

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