Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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