The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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