More Hatched than come to Perfection

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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




No man can be a pure specialist without being in a strict sense an idiot. – Geroge Bernhard Shaw



The professional mind is so microscopic that it sometimes ceases to be binocular. – Bernard De Voto



The priest’s friend loses his faith, the doctor’s his health. – Venetian proverb



Lawyers, preachers and tomtit’s eggs. There are more of them hatched than come to perfection. – Benjamin Franklin



Professions, like nations, are civilized to the degree to which they can satirise themselves. – Peter de Vries



It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work. – May Sarton

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