Quote by Stanley Baldwin
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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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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