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«There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.»
«George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: blunder
«The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.»
«Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.»
«Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: blunder, notion, wad
«It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.»
Author: Jerome K. Jerome | Keywords: blunder, punished
«For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret»
«Forward the Light Brigade! Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die; Into the valley of death, Rode the six hundred, Cannon to right»
«Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors»
«In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.»

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