Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise …

Bertrand Russell
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2016). Mysticism and Logic, p.94, Bertrand Russell
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