I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the fail…

Charles Dickens
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. ✨ Charles Dickens (2016). British Classics: Great Expectations, p.255, The Planet
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