#blunder

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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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders. ↗

— John Morley

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

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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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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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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. ↗

— Justin Winsor

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