It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “(v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution”, p.248
