#confess

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. ↗

— Fanny Burney

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

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Confess and be hanged. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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