“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is a popular American poem verse from the 1830s. The verse has many joke endings that replace “try, try again.”
 
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The Yale Book of Quotations
Edited by Fred. R. Shapiro
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
2006
Pg. 578:
Thomas H.Palmer
U.S. author, 1782-1861
“‘Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again;
If at first you don’t succeed,
Try, try again.”
Quoted in The Village Reader (1840). The identical words, except with “try, try again,” appear in a poem titled “Perseverance; or, Try Again,” printed in Common School Assistant, Aug. 1838. No author is identified. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is a popular American poem verse from the 1830s. The verse has many joke endings that replace “try, try again.”
     
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“If at first you don’t succeed,
reward failure by throwing more
money at it”
—The Government
     
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This entry was posted in Meme and tagged failure, reward on April 8, 2019 by B. Slaymore.
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“If at first you don’t succeed,
reward failure by throwing more
money at it”
—The Government
 
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Monika
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Gov’t is the only place where you reward failure by throwing more money at it.
10:23 AM · May 20, 2019
 
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Ashley
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If at first you don’t succeed, reward failure by throwing more money at it.
THE GOVERNMENT.
3:41 AM · Oct 16, 2019
   
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“If at first you don’t succeed, reward failure by throwing more money at it.” - The Government
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“If at first you don’t succeed,
reward failure by throwing more
money at it”
—The Government
4:24 PM · May 22, 2024