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“ If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do. ”

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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

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

~ Goethe

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

~ Goethe

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.

~ Goethe