“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
Four in America (1933)
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