"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."

Failure, Learning, Progress, Resilience

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"Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal, it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!"

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"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."

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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."

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"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."

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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."

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"She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me."

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"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."

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"Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

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"There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe."

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"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."

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"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."

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