Nothing is more revolting than the majority for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Nothing is more revolting than the majority for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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