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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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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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