I will explain myself more clearly, — the Germans add, when they have explained themselves clearly.

[Ich will mich deutlicher erklären, setzen die Deutschen hinzu, wenn sie sich deutlich erklärt haben.]

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul]
Titan, Jubilee 31, cycle 122 [Schoppe] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)]
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