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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
         

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.


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