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Excuse

(noun) Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. Example: "Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses!"

13 QUOTES
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
— Voltaire
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Their past is not an excuse for you to tolerate disrespectful behaviour."
— Carla Stokes
"Choose actions over excuses."
— Abel Starc
"The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument."
— George Carlin
"Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young."
— Thomas Sowell
"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
— George Washington
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
— Mark Twain
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington
"Forgiveness does not mean excusing."
— C. S. Lewis
"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
— Benjamin Franklin
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