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1 " nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. "
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , The Sorrows of Young Werther
2 " I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. "