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Popular Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
- To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best…
- I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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