If I am wrong, I will not add to an error of judgment the meanness of a clandestine attack.
Horace Mann: “If I am wrong, I will not add to an error of judgment the meanness of a clandestine attack.”
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Mann emphasizes the importance of addressing errors openly rather than through deceitful means.
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