Quote#Success & Failure
Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human…
Quote byRobert Chambers · 1802–1871
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 17.
English (original)
Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.
— Robert Chambers
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