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- Often credited to Mark Twain
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Often credited to George Bernard Shaw
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As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.
Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things (1868), Ch. XXIV, “Perkussion Caps”, p. 89
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.