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• Who dares nothing, need hope for for nothing. -- Johann von Schille
• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
  -- Johann von Schille...
• It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown.
  The sin lessens as the guilt increases. Johann von Schille...
• Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
  -- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6...
• More light!" --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
• All things are only transitory. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)