Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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