Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, I. 4. 515.
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Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum. My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Life
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Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
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