“He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Variant: He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.
Source: Revenge of the Witch
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
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