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John Ruskin Quotes: Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
         

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.


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