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Quote by Georg Brandes

“I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.”

Quote by Georg Brandes

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Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes was a Danish literary critic born on February 4, 1842, and died on February 19, 1927. His works had a profound impact on European literature at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. more

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