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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Books - Reading
American Proverb

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Confession
St. Augustine

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Myth
Roland Barthes

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Analysis
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Ignorance
Marcus T. Cicero

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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Knowledge
Confucius

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
Sin
French Proverb

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A generous confession disarms slander.
Slander
Thomas Fuller

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Prayer
Mahatma Gandhi

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
Doctors
George Herbert

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He that jokes confesses.
Confession
Italian Proverb

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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty and The Poor
Samuel Johnson

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Confession
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Confession
Joni Mitchell

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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
Psychiatry
Laurence J. Peter

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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Confession
Proverb

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Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
Confession
Richard D. Rosen

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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Guilt
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Lovers
Helen Rowland

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Confessed faults are half-mended.
Confession
Scottish Proverb

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Open confession is good for the soul.
Confession
Scottish Proverb

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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Confession
Publilius Syrus

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