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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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 wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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