“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”

— Davy Crockett

As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106

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American politician 1786–1836

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Voces (1943)

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

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John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Lecture IX
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

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Albert Marquet (1875–1947) French artist

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“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
Other works

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Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile

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1980s