What does it mean?
Winning doesn't last forever, and losing doesn't end everything. What really matters is having the strength to keep going.
Key vocabulary
- fatal
- causing death; here, causing a complete end
Who said it?
Winston Churchill: British prime minister and writer (1874–1965).
These exact words are widely credited to Winston Churchill, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.
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