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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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