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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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