From Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, a Norwegian play from 1884. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Bonus: Voltaire in 1770 (France): "Le meglio รจ l'inimico del bene."
Henrik Ibsen in 1884 (Norway): "Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal."
Silicon Valley marketers in 2019 (USA): "Perfect is the enemy of good."
(Influence seems to be becoming less discriminatory by lowering itself to the literacy level most common around it.)
Bonus: Voltaire in 1770 (France): "Le meglio รจ l'inimico del bene."
Henrik Ibsen in 1884 (Norway): "Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal."
Silicon Valley marketers in 2019 (USA): "Perfect is the enemy of good."
(Influence seems to be becoming less discriminatory by lowering itself to the literacy level most common around it.)
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