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blunders

«Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.»
Author: Allan Massie | Keywords: blunders
«But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders»
Author: Hannah Cowley | Keywords: blunders
«Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...»
«Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?»
«All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.»
«Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: blunders, fustian, prose, sublimely
«Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders»
«A clever man commits no minor blunders.»
«Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: blunders
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»

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