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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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