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Seem Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
- The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever…
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him…
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