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Yehudi Menuhin Quotes: Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
         

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.


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