Thursday, April 13, 2023

Except By Stealth

Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

-- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, "Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine (July 1819), final paragraph

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