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Humanity is a comic role.

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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
Literary Theorist
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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