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T. S. Eliot Quotes: To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
         

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.


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