#blunder

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

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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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