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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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