It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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