Germans/language

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“Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)