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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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