No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately pa…

T. S. Eliot
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). The Idea of a Christian Society, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). The Idea of a Christian Society, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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