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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. – Stanley Baldwin

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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience. – Stanley Baldwin

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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? – Eliza Cook

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The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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