Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from sa…

Winston Churchill
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ✨ Sir Winston Churchill (1950). The Grand Alliance, p.638, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ✨ Sir Winston Churchill (1950). The Grand Alliance, p.638, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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