Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.

Ausonio · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 383

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Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.

Ausonio · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 383

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