Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. ✨ Johann Wolfg…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction
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