Mistakes

Examples

• All through school hours I make mistakes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he got into bed, 'I have made one of the most extraordinary mistakes to-night, that ever were heard of. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Lady Catherine was generally speaking--stating the mistakes of the three others, or relating some anecdote of herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I made a mistake; we are all liable to mistakes; I won't do so any more, and I'll become such a lawyer as is not often seen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The mistakes and omissions made in addressing these price cards became no less frequent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Moreover, opportunity for making mistakes is an incidental requirement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That may turn out, Mr. Betteredge, to have been one more of Superintendent Seegrave's many mistakes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yes; Caliphronas is a good English speaker, but he makes mistakes in proper names. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr. and Mrs. M'Choakumchild never make any mistakes themselves, I suppose, Sissy? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I may well make mistakes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In such cases, our control becomes most direct, and at this point we are most likely to make the mistakes just spoken of. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He is an ass, and I am an invalid, and we are likely to make all sorts of mistakes between us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You see what mistakes you make by taking up notions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You know what mistakes you have always been making, Dodo, and this is another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I will wait here for him all the morning, to guard against any misadventures or mistakes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Honest mistakes may be tolerated, but not carelessness, incompetence, or lack of attention to business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again the little country in between made mistakes in its alliances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tell me some of your mistakes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I knew them from the first moment to be mistakes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• An original creative impulse of the mind expresses itself in a certain formula; posterity mistakes the formula for the impulse. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bounderby,' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'we are all liable to mistakes—' 'I thought you couldn't make 'em,' interrupted Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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