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Will Durant Quotes: We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.
         

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.


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This page presents the quote "We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.". Author of this quote is Will Durant. This quote is about disillusionment, fallibility, realism, humility,.