"It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose."
— Joseph Conrad

January 1, 1970

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An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Pt. 3, Ch. 2; possibly an adaptation of a Polish proverb, "Ten się nie myli, kto nic nie robi" — "One is not wrong, who does nothing."