You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. (Sydney J. Harris)

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Sydney J. Harris

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