• Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet 1749-1832
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1. oppressive
2. possess
3. really
4. employ
5. burden
6. moment

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. by : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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