The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ✨ Johann …

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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art, p.109
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