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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
         

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.


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