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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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