FAILURE in Classic Quotes - from Dubliners by James Joyce

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1 His whole speech was a mistake from first to last, an utter failure.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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2 The house, thinly peopled and silent, gave distressing prophecy of failure.

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3 Death, in his opinion, had been probably due to shock and sudden failure of the heart's action.

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4 When we came to the Smoothing Iron we arranged a siege; but it was a failure because you must have at least three.

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5 Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.

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6 At the thought of the failure of her little surprise and of the two and fourpence she had thrown away for nothing she nearly cried outright.

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