“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”

— Stephen Fry

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English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

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Context: The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. Thus there is little chance that we will succeed in getting through to a large audience, and on the whole we are quite satisfied if we are understood and appreciated by a small number of sensitive, receptive people.