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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to ideal

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

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. – Malcolm De Chazal

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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