If $(x_{n})$ is sequence with $x_{n} \leq b$ for all $n$, then $\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n} \leq b$

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If $(x_{n})$ as sequence with $x_{n} \leq b$ for all $n$, then $\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n} \leq b $ if limit exists.

I see this fact being used very often and it seems fairly trivial but I am wondering how it can be proven rigorously.

Proof attempt:

Suppose that the limit exists.

Suppose $x_{n}\leq b$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Then by definition of limit, for any arbitrary $\epsilon>0$, we can find $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that for every $n^*>N$ we have $|(\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n})-x_{n^*}|< \epsilon$. Then $\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n}<\epsilon +x_{n^*} \leq \epsilon +b$

So $\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n}< \epsilon + b$ where $\epsilon$ is arbitrary.

This implies that at most, $\text{lim}_{n \to \infty} x_{n} \leq b$