Quote by Isak Dinesen
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. – Isak Dinesen

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen

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