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"A broken clock is right twice a day"? means you can be wrong and yet right twice a day. "Even a bad example is still an example" means that you can be wrong and yet valuable all the time. My not be the definition of 'opposite', but closer to the opposite than some of the examples provided. I guess from your perspective it could be a bad example of an answer. ;-)

cebess
– cebess

2025-09-12 11:04:50 +00:00
Commented Sep 12 at 11:04

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