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Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot. -
C J Weber
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. -
Oscar Wilde
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. -
Oscar Wilde
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. -
George F Will
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. -
William Butler Yeats
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No one becomes perfect, but some become great. -
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -
Lord Chesterfield
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. -
Edgar Allan Poe
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. -
Epictetus
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Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. -
Chris Evert
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. -
William Hazlitt
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. -
Karen Horney
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. -
Doug Horton
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. -
Doug Larson
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. -
W Somerset Maugham
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. -
W Somerset Maugham
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -
W Somerset Maugham
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