Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. Mary Balogh
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We all make mistakes and we all have regrets. We all have bad things that we would like to change and we wish we could go back and do over. But we don't. We just learn from them and move on.

Source: A Secret Affair

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