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“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9234f766b6bd45a987122dd97773001843e583ff5260c9af8b411fdff65a3d06
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“They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better…”
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“The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt shorter: Paralysis.”
Winston Churchill
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“Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Strength is made perfect in weakness.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”
Thomas Moore
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet…”
Samuel Butler
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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