“Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.”

— Golo Mann

Golo Mann. Thomas Mann and His Family, cited in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 1137.

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