"It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square……" — Simonides of Ceos

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• Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere… — Theodor Adorno
• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is… — Charles Dickens
• The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler
• It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be… — Alexander Hamilton
• If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record. — Emmitt Smith
• On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down… — Unknown Author
• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you… — Elif Safak
• Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss… — Zhuangzi
• Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.… — Baal Shem Tov
• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. — Saadi
• To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi

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