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Wilhelm von Humboldt

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To the yoke of necessity every one willingly bows the head. Still, wherever an actually complicated aspect of things presents itself, it is more difficult to discover exactly what is necessary; but by the very acknowledgment of the principle, the problem invariably becomes simpler and the solution easier

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Joseph Coulthard, translator, The Sphere and Duties of Government (1854).

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