“I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the Germ…”

“I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Title: Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethes Gespraeche (December 13, 1813)

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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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