Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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