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The Sorrows of Young Werther Quotes

There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Book Quotes
  • Book: The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Writer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1774
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