“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'” MenPoetryHumanityQuotesDignityPotentialSuperiorityRoguesRascalsGoetheXenien Book:The Sign of Four Source: The Sign of Four