Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe ...

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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