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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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