Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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