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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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