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• What we do not understand we do not possess. -- Goethe
• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes.
  The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims....
• What we do not understand we do not possess. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe
• Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• A little of what you fancy does you good.