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Sydney Smith Quotes: Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
         

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.


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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.





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