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“ 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. ”

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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

~ Goethe

Goethe Ability Achievement

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

~ Goethe

Goethe Aging Old Age

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

~ Goethe

Goethe Architects Architecture

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

~ Goethe

Goethe Bores Boredom