“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.”
Rousseau http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14052/14052-h/14052-h.htm (1876)
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