"A clever man commits no minor blunders." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
• The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
• All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are… — Annie Besant
• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but… — William Ellery Channing
• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
• No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If… — Vernon Howard
• The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty… — Sun Tzu
• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
• Success covers a multitude of blunders. — George Bernard Shaw
• When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith

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