It does not undo harm to ...

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
 Mignon McLaughlin

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
 Mignon McLaughlin
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
 Mignon McLaughlin