There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense And chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense And chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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