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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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