We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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