It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). The Portable Nietzsche, p.115, Penguin
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