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Graham J Weeks

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Jul 27, 2002, 2:24:52 AM7/27/02
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To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
on Criticism

To err is human, but to blame it on someone else is even more human

To err is human. So, what's your excuse! Bazooka Joe

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. --Paul Erlich

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David C Kifer

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Jul 27, 2002, 1:33:14 PM7/27/02
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Graham J Weeks wrote:
>
> To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
> on Criticism
>
> To err is human, but to blame it on someone else is even more human
>
> To err is human. So, what's your excuse! Bazooka Joe
>
> To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
> Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
>
> To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. --Paul Erlich

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're
overdoing it.
--Josh Jenkins

To err is human, to forgive, canine.
-- Anonymous

To err is human, to forgive against company policy.
--Unknown

[p&e]
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

The Sanity Inspector

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Jul 27, 2002, 11:46:25 PM7/27/02
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Like wow, Scooby, look what Graham J Weeks
<wee...@REMOVEdircon.co.uk> just wrote!

>To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
>on Criticism

To forgive is human, to forget divine.
-- James Grand, c.1980

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam

Frank Lynch

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Jul 28, 2002, 11:29:37 AM7/28/02
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:46:25 GMT, choll...@mindspring.com (The
Sanity Inspector) wrote:

>To forgive is human, to forget divine.
>-- James Grand, c.1980

This explains perceptions of Ronald Reagan's divinity! (couldn't
resist...)

Frank Lynch
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Joe Fineman

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Jul 28, 2002, 5:59:02 PM7/28/02
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choll...@mindspring.com (The Sanity Inspector) writes:

> Like wow, Scooby, look what Graham J Weeks
> <wee...@REMOVEdircon.co.uk> just wrote!
>
> >To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
> >on Criticism
>
> To forgive is human, to forget divine.
> -- James Grand, c.1980

Bless you, you will be blameless yet,
For God forgives, and men forget. -- G. K. Chesterton (to Kipling)
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William C Waterhouse

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Jul 29, 2002, 5:42:36 PM7/29/02
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In article <3D423CA2...@REMOVEdircon.co.uk>,
Graham J Weeks <wee...@REMOVEdircon.co.uk> writes:
> To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
> on Criticism
>...

The rhythm shows that the second "is" doesn't belong there.

William C. Waterhouse
Penn State


ObQuote: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
--- Irving Mills, Duke Ellington (song title)

Daniel P. B. Smith

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Jul 31, 2002, 8:29:04 PM7/31/02
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"Did I err? Yes, I seem to have erred."

--Running joke in Sergio Aragonés' "Groo the Wanderer" comics.

(After making some catastrophic blunder with cataclysmic consequences,
Groo always says "Did I err? Yes, I seem to have erred.")

--
Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbs...@theworld.com


ME

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Aug 1, 2002, 12:48:01 AM8/1/02
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I forgive you....Does that make me divine?
Just Mary
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Obquote: "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more." Bob Dylan


Frank Lynch

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Aug 1, 2002, 8:28:39 AM8/1/02
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:29:37 GMT, Frank Lynch
<frank.lync...@verizon.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:46:25 GMT, choll...@mindspring.com (The
>Sanity Inspector) wrote:
>
>>To forgive is human, to forget divine.
>>-- James Grand, c.1980
>
>This explains perceptions of Ronald Reagan's divinity! (couldn't
>resist...)

This may have been interpreted as an unkind comment on Reagan's
Alzheimer's disease... That was certainly not my intent, and if in
interpreting that, you were offended, I apologize. I meant it as a
dig on all the things that happened during Iran-Contra which he seemed
to forget. I think. Let me check my notes...

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