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Failing Quotes by Mark Twain
- It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take…
- There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to…
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
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- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton