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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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