To a valet no man is a hero.
[Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Wahlverwandtschaften, II, 5, Aus Ottilien’s Tagebuche (1805)
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