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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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