Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil"
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Epictetus
Philosopher
"It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove."
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"The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient."
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