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I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

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“I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.”

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Nightingale describes her working habit as acting on responsibility rather than accepting excuses when practical failures required correction.

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Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter [1861], transcribed in Sir Edward Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, Vol. I, Project Gutenberg #40057. The sentence follows Nightingale’s account of correcting a hotel cistern failure and represents her own retrospective claim about her working method.

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