“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
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“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience


“You're doing the best you can, right? Isn't that what we always tell each other?”
Gabby Parker, Chapter 19, p. 227
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in A Reminiscence of Project Ozma http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/ozma.htm, Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1979.