We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an ac... - Cosimo de Medici

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Cosimo de Medici Perseverance

Banker Patron Statesman Italian 1389–1464

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