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What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about at will.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum,
Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen.

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Source: Oberon, VIII. 20; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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