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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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