"A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile."
— William Camden

January 1, 1970

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Cf. Scottish Proverbs Collected and Arranged by Andrew Henderson, 1832, p.103: "An inch o' a miss is as gude as a span." Scottish Proverbs. With an Introductory Essay