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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

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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