I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay:. . . that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.