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Faultless to a fault.
* Robert Browning
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Perfection is the child of time.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
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You would attain to the divine perfection,
And yet not turn your back upon the world.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under.
* Gerald Moor
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
* George Orwell
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I have no faith in human perfectability. 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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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection!
* William Shakespeare
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
* William Shakespeare
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It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.
* Oscar Wilde
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