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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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