It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
You don't lose because of one play.
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.
Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
