Young people are much too easily excited and then swept away in the maelstrom of the times; wealth and speed are what the world admires and everyone strives for; railroads, express letters, steamships, and every possible facility of communication – that’s what matters to the educated world: to outdo and out-learn one another and thereby remain stuck in mediocrity.
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Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman.
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