All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders. JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail... JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits. JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment. JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr... JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural. JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ... JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ... JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. JOHANN VON GOETHE The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable... JOHANN VON GOETHE Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best. OTTO VON BISMARCK Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. JOHANN VON GOETHE The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. JOHANN VON GOETHE He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w... JOHANN VON GOETHE To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. JOHANN VON GOETHE Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of... JOHANN VON GOETHE