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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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