I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

—Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party,...

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

—Alexander Hamilton

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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

—Alexander Hamilton

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

—Alexander Hamilton

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And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

—Marcus Aurelius

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