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Confucius: A blemish may be taken out of a diamond by careful polishing, but if your words…

A blemish may be taken out of a diamond by careful polishing, but if your words have the least blemish there is no way to efface it.

In today’s wordsA flaw can be polished out of a diamond, but if your words have the slightest flaw, there's no way to erase it.

ConfuciusCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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