The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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