An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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