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THE INSTRUCTORS

 WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel,

When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave,
Oh, what noble lessons were those for the rash son of Philip,

Were not the lord of the world e'en for instruction too great!

 1789.
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Poem by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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