"No greater mistake can be made than..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
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“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
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