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Failure Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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