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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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