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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
Excuses
Alexander Pope

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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William Shakespeare

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Excuses
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Bad excuses are worse than none.
Excuses
Thomas Fuller

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Don't make excuses, make good.
Excuses
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Benjamin Franklin

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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
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Gabriel Meurier

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If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
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Yiddish Proverb

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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
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A. A. Milne

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The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
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Yiddish Proverb

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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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Thomas Szasz

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Rudyard Kipling

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun