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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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. – Henry David Thoreau

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. – H.T. Leslie

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli

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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. – Author Unknown

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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? – William Shakespeare

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