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"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks." -
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Top 5 quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."
"A man's errors are what make him amiable."
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience."
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"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
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