When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the...

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