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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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