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No one is more a slave than the man who thinks himself free while he is not.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Book Quotes
  • Book: Elective Affinities
  • Writer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1809
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