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Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters, Prefatory Remarks, trans. unknown, (George Bell and Sons, 1875), p. 373:
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
From Humphry Ward’s Introduction to Amiel’s Journal (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903), vol. I, lxxxix-xcvi: The Journal is full, ind...
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