“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
“It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, book The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 284
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
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