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Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ''What's in it for me?''
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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Insurrection: An unsuccessful revolution.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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