Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but …

T. S. Eliot
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Christianity and Culture, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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