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).
