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Quote by T.S. Eliot
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. – Mark Twain

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. – Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues

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