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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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