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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

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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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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