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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Book Quotes
  • Book: Maxims and Reflections
  • Writer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1833
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