“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

— Albert Schweitzer, Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, 1924

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About Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965

Alsatian theologian, physician and missionary, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1952).

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