"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
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Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American (1912), p. 44
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George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry (May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.
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