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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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