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The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Joseph Addison
Imperfection
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.195
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.