Samuel Smiles quote: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what ...

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

~ Samuel Smiles ~

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