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Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern

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Sharon Kay Penman
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Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Sharon Kay Penman: life dates 1945 to 2021. Wikidata Q7490109, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7490109 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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