“America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Amerika, du hast es besser—als unser Kontinent, der alte.
Wendts Musen-Almanach (1831)

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Amerika, du hast es besser—als unser Kontinent, der alte.

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