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The compulsion of fate is bitter.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Des Schiksals Zwang ist bjtter.

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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

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I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.

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