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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
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thumb|A 1771 portrait of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim by Johann Heinrich Tischbein.
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (2 April 1719 – 18 February 1803) was a German poet of the Enlightenment.
Quotes
Was von mir, ein Esel spricht,Das acht’ ich nicht.
What an ass may say of me,that I do not heed.
Fabeln (Berlin, 1756), p. 9, Fab. 4 ("Der Lӧwe u. der Fuchs")
Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2988
Cf. Phaedrus, The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him
External links
Category:1719 births
Category:Poets from Germany
Category:1803 deaths