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Best the enemy of the good

William Shakespeare

Phraseologism: Best is the enemy of the good.

Meaning: 1. Encouragement of someone who is ready to give up the good for the sake of the better, when once done work is redone, time is spent on its improvement, etc. 2. Ironic warning: despite all efforts, "the best" can not be achieved, but lost at the same time already achieved "good" - quite real.

Origin: For the first time in world literature, this idea is found in the commentary of the Italian author M. Giovanni (1574) to Boccaccio's Decameron. Later, W. Shakespeare would express a similar thought in the tragedy "King Lear": "Striving for the best, we often spoil the good." But. It became a catchphrase after the publication of the novel La begueule by Voltaire (pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778), which used this phrase. Voltaire later uses this expression again in his "Philosophical Dictionary" - in an article on dramatic art. Therefore, it was Voltaire who was considered to be the author of this aphorism, which was usually quoted in the French, Voltaire version: Le mieux est I "enneini du bien.

Random phraseology:

God forbid to see the Russian rebellion, meaningless and merciless.

Meaning:

Used literally.

Origin:

From the story (ch. 13) "The Captain's Daughter" (1836) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). In the original: "God forbid to see a Russian rebellion, senseless and merciless!" The same thought, but more detailed, is contained in the "Missed Chapter" story, which was not included in the final edition of "The Captain's Daughter" and was preserved only in a draft manuscript: "God forbid to see a Russian rebellion - senseless and merciless. Those who plot us impossible coups, or young and do not know our people, or hard-hearted people, to whom someone else's little head is a half, and their own neck is a penny.

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