Don't dissipate your powers strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Don't dissipate your powers strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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