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Elective Affinities [Die Wahlverwandtschaften], Part 2, ch. 5, "From Ottilie's Journal [Aus Ottiliens Tagebuche]" (1809) [Niles ed. (1872)] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST Quotations
No one would ever come into a mixed party with spectacles on his nose, if he did but know that at once we women lose all pleasure in looking at him or listening to what he has to say. [Es käme niemand mit der Brille auf der Nase in ein…