The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two, Anchor
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