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T. S. Eliot Quotes

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T. S. Eliot (The Confidential Clerk Quotes)

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Source:The Confidential Clerk (ed. Harcourt, 1954), Act I, Page 43
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  • Name: T. S. Eliot
  • Profession: Poet, Writer
  • Born: September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
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