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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. – Joseph Addison

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I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch. – Terri Guillemets, “Perfectionism,” 1990

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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. – Charles Lamb

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