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I deprecate error of all sorts; but hold it to be more venial to err in judgment than in heart.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I deprecate error of all sorts; but hold it to be more venial to err in judgment than in heart.”
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Mann expresses his belief that errors in judgment are less severe than errors in moral conviction.
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