“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet
No. 536
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
— Jerome
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