“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Imperfection http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21399/Imperfection
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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

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