I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.
—Anonymous. Quoted in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, third edition (1987)
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)