Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T. S. Eliot

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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

T. S. Eliot

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

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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