He who aims at perfekshun will probably miss the mark, but he who aims at nothing, iz sure to hit it every time.
[He who aims at perfection will probably miss the mark, but he who aims at nothing, is sure to hit it every time.]
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Life’s most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 7 (1963)
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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun (1888-1939) American journalist, author
“Sport for Art’s Sake,” Vanity Fair (Sep 1921)
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Reprinted in Pieces of Hate, and Other Enthusiasms (1922).
