“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Title: Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Context

Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography (1884)

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

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