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Frederick Lewis Allen

“He fell into the pit which is digged for every idealist. Having failed to embody his ideal in fact, he distorted the fact. He pictured the world, to himself and to others, not as it was, but as he wished it to be. The optimist became a sentimentalist. The story of the Conference which he told to the American people when he returned home was a very beautiful romance of good men and true laboring without thought of selfish advantage for the welfare of humanity. He said that if the United States did not come to the aid of mankind by indorsing all that had been done at Paris, the heart of the world would be broken. But the only heart which was broken was his own.”

Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen
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