“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”

—  Christoph Martin Wieland , book Oberon

Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
Oberon, Song 5, st. 30 http://www.archive.org/stream/oberon02187gut/7ober10.txt; translation from A. B. Faust (ed.) Oberon (New York: F. S. Crofts, 1940) p. 326.

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Nichts halb zu tun ist edler Geister Art.

Oberon, Fünfter Gesang, 30., Jazzybee Verlag, 2012, S. 78 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=iSwTAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT78&dq=halb

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