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Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T.S. Eliot

1939

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Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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