Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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