"Whatever we think out, whatever we take..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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