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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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 arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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