It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. (Plutarch)

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

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