If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
In the original German
Wenn du fragst, wie die Leute hier sind, muß ich dir sagen: wie überall!
The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.
Original citation
Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.