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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

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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