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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

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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