Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read.
I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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- More light!" --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
- All intelligent thoughts have already been though
what is necessary is only to try to think them again. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... - If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows.
I have guesses enough of my own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... - I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... - Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
