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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ✨ Maxims and Reflections. Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.
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