"All sweeping assertions are erroneous."
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General assertions, like general truths, are not always applicable to individual cases; though Fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831) Vol II, Chapter 5
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