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Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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