“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Der Appetit nach einer schönen Frucht ist angenehmer als die Frucht selbst.
Christoph Martin Wieland (ed.) Der deutsche Merkur vol. 20 (1781) p. 214; cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin Weidmann, 1888) vol. 15, p. 307. Translation from Maturin M. Ballou Pearls of Thought (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881) p. 13

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Der Appetit nach einer schönen Frucht ist angenehmer als die Frucht selbst.

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