List of Cultural Icons of Germany

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    The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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    A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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    The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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