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  • Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

    George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.4208, Delphi Classics