The Quarterly Review? Samuel Shaen? Wyndham Harding? Samuel Smiles? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: While reading a humorous book containing a collection of terribly inaccurate predictions I encountered the following: What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? The book asserted that this claim was …
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The Person Who Never Makes a Mistake Will Never Make Anything
Theodore Roosevelt? Albert Einstein? Benjamin Franklin? Samuel Smiles? Josh Billings? Mr. Phelps? G. K. Chesterton? Robert Smith Surtees? Joseph Conrad? Will Rogers? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Mistakes are unavoidable in the life of an active and vital person. Several adages highlight this important theme: 1) A man who never makes a mistake will never make …
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