Quoted in the Preface to The Works of Francis Rabelais (1931), Albert Jay Nock and Catherine R. Wilson (Eds.)
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The fashion of this world passeth away and I would fain occupy myself with the things that are abiding.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,