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Quote by William Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. - William Wordswort

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth

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The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. – Charles de Gaulle

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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