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If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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George Carlin
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Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1937 to 2008; Wikidata Q150651, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150651 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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