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Woodrow Wilson: If we are suffering disappointment, it is the disappointment of an awakening: we were dreaming.

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If we are suffering disappointment, it is the disappointment of an awakening: we were dreaming.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson reflects on the nature of disappointment as a sign of awakening to reality.

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