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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important

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"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson"

- Bruce Catton

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This quote is written / told by Bruce Catton between October 9, 1899 and August 28, 1978. He/she was a famous Historian from USA. The author also have 8 other quotes.

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