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

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Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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