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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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