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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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