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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.
(A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale) Taylor (1906-1990), British historian. Letter, March 16, 1973. Letters to Eva, ed. Eva Haraszti Taylor (1991).
Referring to Field Marshal Alexander.)
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
(Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Italian poet, novelist, translator. The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950, entry for February 21, 1940 (1952, trans. 1961).)
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Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers,
Maiden most perfect,lady of light,
(A.C. (Algernon Charles) Swinburne (1837-1909), British poet, critic. Atalanta in Calydon (l. 39-46). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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'Love is the perfect sum
Of all delight,'
(Tobias Hume (d. 1645), British poet. Fain Would I Change That Note (attributed to Hume) (l. 6-7). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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Well, nobody's perfect.
(Billy Wilder (b. 1906), U.S. film director, I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter, and Billy Wilder. Osgood E. Fielding III (Joe E. Brown), in Some Like It Hot (film), final words of film, on Osgood's discovery that his bride-to-be (Jack Lemmon) is a man (1959).)
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A "super person" is one who expects to manage a career, home, and family with complete ease, expecting to maintain a perfect job, a perfect marriage, a perfect house, and perfect control of the children.
(Joyce Portner (late 20th century), U.S. author. Stress and Family, ch. 11 (1983).)
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One of the main things that interfere with our joy is the belief that if we try hard enough, read the right books, follow the right advice, and buy the right things, we could be perfect parents. If we are good enough as parents, our children will be perfect too.... Unfortunately, what comes from trying to live out this philosophy is not perfect children but worried parents.
(Lawrence Kutner (20th century), U.S. child psychologist and author. Parent and Child, ch. 1 (1991).)
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The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Lolita, pt. I, ch. 20 (1955).)
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
(Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943), British conductor. New Yorker (April 30, 1990).)
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "The Raison d'tre of Criticism in the Arts," pt. II (1947), in Two Cheers for Democracy (1951).
Originally from an address on music at Harvard University.)
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