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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
– Leo Tolstoy

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  26. Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. – Leo Tolstoy
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