“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html <br class="br">1900s
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