“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In das Gute glauben nur die Wenigen, die es üben.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.

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In das Gute glauben nur die Wenigen, die es üben.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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