Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far o…

T. S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.1250, Faber & Faber
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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