Maybe I am wrong.*
This does not prove you infallable. This does not excuse the presumption that I make up quotes as I go along, that all my arguments are unfounded and that my interpretation will always be inferior to yours. Nor is it ground for the arrogant disdain with which you assume that I would not be able-let alone inclined- to admit that I was wrong.
* Here meaning: checking and double-chacking have proven me so.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
One letter in the 11th line of the 18th sonnet of a guy (I-A-G !) who has been dead for four hundred years isn't a big deal. By the way, when reading it with the misprint, your interpretation was probably the best one possible.
I shall not henceforth consider myself infallable, nor will I brag about being right. But I do think my observation that you have a hard time admitting a mistake, was far less arrogant than the sneering disdain you tend to use whenever you find someone else lacking in knowledge on any given subject of which you know a little more.
I probably make an average of twenty mistakes a day and don't have, neither do I need, the illusion of infallability. Do you? As far as quoting is concerned, Morganmona, I guess can live up to 1% of your quoting power - and I'm supposed to have studied English literature!
Be gentle to all species, male and female, and let not minor factual differences have their influence on a brittle self image.
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