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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes: I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
         

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.


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