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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Samuel Smiles 1816-1904 John Bartlett

 
1
      No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
          Self-Help.
2
      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.
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