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"On September 20, 1792, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saw the finest army of Europe inexplicably repulsed at Valmy by some French militiamen, and said to his disconcerted friends: "In this place and on th…"
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
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