"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

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"Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things."

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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."

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"While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things."

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"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."

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"Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them."

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"In a major matter no details are small."

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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."

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"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them."

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"Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle."

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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail."

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"Measure three times before you cut once."

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"Carelessness is worse than a thieve."

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"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man."

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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

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"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right."

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"I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."

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