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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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