#blunder

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. ↗

— John Bonham

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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time. ↗

— Fred Couples

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My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. ↗

— Stand Watie

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