"If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labou… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!"