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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.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
He that is
good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Bad excuses
are worse than none.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
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.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1941-, American Author,
Publicist
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Apology is
only egotism wrong side out.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
We have forty
million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-- Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of
Prose, Verse
He who excuses
himself, accuses himself.
-- Gabriel Meurier
No doubt Jack
the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human
nature.
-- A. A. Milne
1882-1956, British Born
American Writer
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