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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Comment# · Fair (2884 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in
Vice and Virtue and
Work and Recreation
Comment# · Fair (770 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
Comment# · Fair (769 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Comment# · Fair (776 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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