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Lines Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
- Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
- The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able…
- When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived…
- The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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