They were a success for Stephen Douglas, who got elected as Senator.
But it was Lincoln who got elected as President two years later.
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Im reminded of some quites ..."Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.""Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.""Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.""Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.""I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.""Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.""Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."Stack that against Lincoln and you'll see there were no "major failures" ...REFER TO LINK @ BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ''LINCOLN'S FAILURES' ...
Christopher Columbus was both success and failure
Failure = virgin success = sex
the XYZ Affair was not a success it was a failure
" success doesn't = failure+failure it= failure x failure" -quote by me! Ivan vasilyev means fail a lot of times will = more success
The Esperanto words for success and failure are sukceso and malsukceso.
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Failure is the key to success.
Failure.