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I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

Max Muller

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Max Muller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 6
Died: 1900
Died: October 28
Educator
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Dessau-Rosslau
Friedrich Max Müller
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F. Max Müller
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