Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T. S. Eliot
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More Quotes By T. S. Eliot
  1. How wild it was, to let it be.

  2. We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

  3. You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

  4. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  5. It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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