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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
         

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.


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