I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
("Faust")
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
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