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“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”
Oscar Wilde
,
Lady Windermere's Fan
“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”
G. K. Chesterton
,
What's Wrong with the World
“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!”
Margaret Atwood
,
The Blind Assassin
“The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;”
Jerome K. Jerome
,
Three Men in a Boat
“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”
G. K. Chesterton
,
What's Wrong with the World
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