Maxims and Reflections
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Brief observations on advice, error, prejudice and self-command give this collection its shape. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe moves between the habits of individual people and larger questions about order, reform and culture. The numbered sayings often turn on a distinction: enthusiasm can help or mislead, and familiar work can seem comfortable precisely because it asks little of us. Bailey Saunders presents these prose maxims in English, with a preface explaining the selection.
The contents range from life and character to literature, art, science and nature. Saunders describes assistance from Huxley with the scientific material and Leighton with the observations on art, making the choices behind this edition part of its interest.
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- 100
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