Brewer's: Exceptions prove the Rule

They prove there is a rule, or there could be no exceptions; the very fact of exceptions proves there must be a rule.

“Exceptio probat regulam.” —Columella.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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