We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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