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| English | Russian |
| near enough is not good enough | чуть-чуть не считается (Andrey Truhachev) |
| the best is the enemy of the good enough | лучшее – враг хорошего (an aphorism which is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Dictionnaire philosophique in 1770) |
| when crowd is fair there's not enough air | много народа-мало кислорода (astroma1978) |