“That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."”
That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
Speech at Heston Airport before his flight to Munich to meet Hitler (29 September 1938), quoted in The Times (30 September 1938), p. 12
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