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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.Book of Common Prayer
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.John Brown
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.Elisha Potter
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.Titus Maccius Plautus
An act against my will is not my act.Unknown, Legal Maxim
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Draper