a bad workman always blames his tools
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edita bad workman always blames his tools
- It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them.
- 1881, John Wurtle Lovell, “Jacula Prudentum”, in The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse[1], New York, page 440:
- Never had ill workman good tools.
- 1881, John Wurtle Lovell, “Jacula Prudentum”, in The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse[2], New York, page 454:
- An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.
- Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.
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editnot the tools but how they're employed
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