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> [Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/defeat-is-a-fact-and-victory-can-be-a-fact-if-the-idea-is-good-it/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

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## More by Stephen Vincent Benet

> [Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/sometimes-a-sign-or-a-quote-is-simply-interesting-by-itself-and-does/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/i-have-fallen-in-love-with-american-names-the-sharp-names-that-never/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/i-have-fallen-in-love-with-american-names-the-sharp-gaunt-names-that/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/it-s-to-a-younger-people-s-advantage-to-work-with-evolving-computer/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [“It's time to walk to the cider mill Through air like apple wine, And watch the moon rise over the hill, stinging and hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/it-s-time-to-walk-to-the-cider-mill-through-air-like-apple-wine-and/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [“There is a wilderness we walk alone However well-companioned”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/there-is-a-wilderness-we-walk-alone-however-well-companioned/)

[Stephen Vincent Benét](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/life-is-not-lost-by-dying-life-is-lost-minute-by-minute-day-by/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/i-died-in-my-boots-like-a-pioneer-with-the-whole-wide-sky-above-me/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/i-don-t-think-i-have-ever-really-gotten-leopold-bloom-s-interior/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/and-thames-and-all-the-rivers-of-the-kings-ran-into-mississippi-and/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/oh-georgia-booze-is-mighty-fine-booze-the-best-yuh-ever-poured-yuh/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [Books are not men and yet they are alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/books-are-not-men-and-yet-they-are-alive/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/god-pity-us-indeed-for-we-are-human-and-do-not-always-see-the-vision/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/whatever-poetry-that-was-in-me-was-coming-out-in-the-form-of/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

> [Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/truth-is-a-hard-deer-to-hunt-if-you-eat-too-much-truth-at-once-you/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

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