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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.<\/div>\n
Alexander Pope<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.<\/div>\n
William Shakespeare<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.<\/div>\n
Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bad excuses are worse than none.<\/div>\n
Thomas Fuller<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Don't make excuses, make good.<\/div>\n
Anonymous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.<\/div>\n
Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.<\/div>\n
Gabriel Meurier<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.<\/div>\n
Yiddish Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.<\/div>\n
Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.<\/div>\n
A. A. Milne<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.<\/div>\n
Yiddish Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women's Movement.<\/div>\n
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.<\/div>\n
Thomas Szasz<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.<\/div>\n
Rudyard Kipling<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.<\/div>\n
Lord Byron<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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