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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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