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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 despondency and laziness make them give it up as unattainable.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by Donald O. Bolander, 1979.
-- Philip Dormer Chesterfield, (Sep 22 1694-1773), English statesman, author; He typified the 18th-century gentleman; wrote Letters to His Son, 1774 as a guide to manners and worldly success.

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