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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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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A.A. Milne

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Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824

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Every man is the son of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

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