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Show TRIFLES MAKE PERFECTION. A friend called on Michael Angelo, who was finishing a statue. Some time afterward he called again; the sculptor was still at his work. His friend, looking at the figure, exclaimed, "You have been idle since I saw you last." "By no means," replied the sculptor, "I have retouched this part and polished that; I have softened this feature, and brought out this muscle; I have given more expression to this lip, and more energy to this limb?," "Well, well," said his friend, "but all these are trifles." "It may be so," replied Angelo, but "recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." So also is it with character. |