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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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Herbert Bayard Swope
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 5
Died: 1958
Died: June 20
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