Christian Raitz Von

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    O, I have passed a miserable night,
    So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
    That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
    I would not spend another such a night
    Though ‘twere to buy a world of happy days,
    So full of dismal terror was the time.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)