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Not ~~Nelson Mandela or Confucius~~

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Really: Oliver Goldsmith, 1762

Writer Oliver Goldsmith published this line in 1762, loosely crediting Confucius. Mandela did not coin it.

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