mistake for
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?
I am for no master nor moral persuasion. I am for myself. What your yearning soul, madam, might mistake for loyalty to person or Purpose is merely a firm and, aye, principled determination to accept responsibility only for myself and my own actions.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
... for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.