"Rather than always impose your will, allow men to learn from their mistakes. Great failures make great teachers; success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Rather than always impose your will, allow men to learn from their mistakes. Great failures make great teachers; success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to."

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