John Theodore Merz, A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century Vol.1 (1904)
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Of Goethe it may be said that he created to a large extent the language and style of that which is best in the modern literature of his country. No such supreme influence belonging to a single individual can probably be found in any other German, French, or English writer in our century...
— John Theodore Merz
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,