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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast. - Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He’d have improved if you’d not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.

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