"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation."
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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
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"The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art."
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"And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining."
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"The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic."
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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society."
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"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
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"When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her."
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"I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff."
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"If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection."
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"The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection."
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"When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist."
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"Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven."
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"Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting."
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"Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away."
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"I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone."
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"It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection."
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"How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"
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"All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one."
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"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
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