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Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.