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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
         

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.


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