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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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