Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

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