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For A Brave Man Deserves A Well-endowed Girl. [ger., Denn Ein Wackerer Mann Verdient Ein Begutertes Madchen.]

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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For A Brave Man Deserves A Well-endowed Girl. [ger., Denn Ein Wackerer Mann Verdient Ein Begutertes Madchen.]

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There Is No Outward Sign Of True Courtesy That Does Not Rest On A Deep Moral Foundation.

One Must Not Criticize That Which Is Common Since It Remains Always The Same.

The Fate Of The Architect Is The Strangest Of All. How Often He Expends His Whole Soul, His Whole Heart And Passion, To Produce Buildings Into Which He Himself May Never Enter.

Who Never Ate His Bread In Sorrow, Who Never Spent The Darksome Hours Weeping, And Watching For The Morrow,- He Knows You Not, Ye Heavenly Powers.

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Beauty Is Everywhere A Welcome Guest.

The Soul Is Indestructible And Its Activity Will Continue Through Eternity. It Is Like The Sun, Which, To Our Eyes, Seems To Set At Night; But It Has In Reality Only Gone To Diffuse Its Light Elsewhere.

It Matters Little Whether A Man Be Mathematically Or Philologically Or Artistically Cultivated, So He Be But Cultivated.

The Brilliant Passes, Like The Dew At Morn; The True Endures, For Ages Yet Unborn.

Every Reader, If He Has A Strong Mind, Reads Himself Into The Book, And Amalgamates His Thoughts With Those Of The Author.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent. I Therefore Show You Only The Best Works; And When You Are Grounded In These, You Will Have A Standard For The Rest, Which You Will Know How To Value, Without Overrating Them.

What You Desire When Young, You Have In Abundance When Old.

The Rainbow Mirrors Human Aims And Action. Think, And More Clearly Wilt Thou Grasp It, Seeing Life Is But Light In Many-hued Reflection.

The Whole History Of The Christian Church Is A Mixture Of Errors And Violence.

I Will Be Lord Over Myself.

The Sun Had, In The Meanwhile, Sunk Behind The Ettersberg. We Felt In The Wood The Chill Of The Evening, And Drove All The Quicker To Wiemar, And To Goethe's House. Goethe Urged Me To Go In With Him For A While, And I Did So. He Was In An Extremely Engaging Mood. He Talked A Great Deal About His Theory Of Colors, And Of His Obstinate Opponents; Remarking That He Was Sure That He Had Done Something In This Science.

I Reverence The Individual Who Understands Distinctly What He Wishes; Who Unweariedly Advances, Who Knows The Means Conducive To His Object, And Can Seize And Use Them.

Ambition And Love Are The Wings Of Great Actions.

The Evil One Has Left, The Evil Ones Remain.

The Evil One Has Left, The Evil Ones Remain. [ger., Den Bosen Sind Sie Los, Die Bosen Sind Geblieben.]

Too Many Parents Make Life Hard For Their Children By Trying, Too Zealously, To Make It Easy For Them.

All Our Knowledge Is Symbolic.

Architecture Is Frozen Music. [ger., Die Backunst Ist Eine Erstarrte Musik.]

Each Ten Years Of A Man's Life Has Its Own Fortunes, Its Own Hopes, Its Own Desires.

Every Spoken Word Arouses Our Self-will.

This Is What They All Come To Who Exclusively Harp On Experience. They Do Not Stop To Consider That Experience Is Only One Half Of Experience.

He Alone Deserves Liberty And Life Who Daily Must Win Them Anew.

Only He Who Finds Empiricism Irksome Is Driven To Method.

There Are But Few Who Have Ideas And Are, At The Same Time, Capable Of Action. Ideas Enlarge But Stymie, Action Enlivens But Confines.

Happy Is It, Indeed, For Me That My Heart Is Capable Of Feeling The Same Simple And Innocent Pleasure As The Peasant Whose Table Is Covered With Food Of His Own Rearing, And Who Not Only Enjoys His Meal, But Remembers With Delight The Happy Days And Sunny Mornings When He Planted It, The Soft Evenings When He Watered It, And The Pleasure He Experienced In Watching Its Daily Growth.

A Man Doesn't Learn To Understand Anything Unless He Loves It.

A Plant Is Like A Self-willed Man, Out Of Whom We Can Obtain All Which We Desire, If We Will Only Treat Him His Own Way.

The Most Congenial Social Occasions Are Those Ruled By Cheerful Deference Of Each For All.

In Politics People Throw Themselves, As On A Sickbed, From One Side To The Other In The Belief They Will Lie More Comfortably.

What Then Is Your Duty? What The Day Demands.

Beauty Can Never Really Understand Itself.

People Can Only Live With Their Equals, And Not Even With Them; For In The Long Run They Cannot Tolerate That Someone Is Their Equal.

The March Of Intellect, Which Licks All The World Into Shape, Has Even Reached The Devil.

We Are Pantheists As Natural Scientists, Polytheists As Poets, And Monotheists As Moral Beings.

At Bottom, No Real Object Is Unpoetical, If The Poet Knows How To Use It Properly.

Too Rigid Scruples Are Concealed Pride.

Some People Spend The Day In Complaining Of A Headache, And The Night In Drinking The Wine That Gives It.

No Wise Combatant Underestimates Their Antagonist.

Religion Is Not In Want Of Art; It Rests On Its Own Majesty.

I Make Presents To The Mother But Think Of The Daughter.

Music Is Either Sacred Or Secular. The Sacred Agrees With Its Dignity, And Here Has Its Greatest Effect On Life, An Effect That Remains The Same Through All Ages And Epochs. Secular Music Should Be Cheerful Throughout.

Willing Is Not Enough, We Must Do.

I Let Everyone Follow His Own Bent, That I May Be Free To Follow Mine.

There Is Repetition Everywhere, And Nothing Is Found Only Once In The World.

It Is Equally A Mistake To Hold One's Self Too High, Or To Rate One's Self Too Cheap.

A Useless Life Is An Early Death. [ger., Ein Unnutz Leben Ist Ein Fruher Tod.]

Wishes Are Premonitions Of Abilities.

What Chance Gathers, She Easily Scatters. A Great Person Attracts Great People And Knows How To Hold Them Together.

If You Want To Understand Poetry, You Have To Go To Its Origin, If You Want To Understand The Poet, You Have To Go To The Poet's Home.

For That Is Love's Nature That It Lays Claim To Exclusive Right And That All Other Claims Are Nil.

Every Man Must Form Himself As A Particular Being, Seeking, However, To Attain That General Idea Of Which All Mankind Are Constituents.

Unlimited Activity, Of Whatever Kind, Must End In Bankruptcy.

Nature Does Not Suffer Her Veil To Be Taken From Her, And What She Does Not Choose To Reveal To The Spirit, Thou Wilt Not Wrest From Her By Levers And Screws.

Whoever Makes It A Rule To Test Action By Thought, Thought By Action, Cannot Falter, And If He Does, Will Soon Find His Way Back To The Right Road.

Know'st Thou The Land Where The Lemon-trees Bloom, Where The Gold Orange Glows In The Deep Thicket's Gloom, Where A Wind Ever Soft From The Blue Heaven Blows, And The Groves Are Of Laurel And Myrtle And Rose!

The Greatest Genius Will Not Be Worth Much If He Pretends To Draw Exclusively From His Own Resources

Love And Desire Are The Spirit's Wings To Great Deeds.

One Must Be Something To Be Able To Do Something.

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He Who Knows No Foreign Languages Knows Nothing Of His Own.

I Curse All Negative Purism That Tells Me Not To Use A Word From Another Language That Either Expresses Something That My Own Language Cannot Or Does That In A More Delicate Manner.

It Seems To Never Occur To Fools That Merit And Good Fortune Are Closely United.

Whatever You Can Do Or Dream, Begin It.

People Have A Peculiar Pleasure In Making Converts, That Is, In Causing Others To Enjoy What They Enjoy, Thus Finding Their Own Likeness Represented And Reflected Back To Them.

Animals, We Have Been Told, Are Taught By Their Organs. Yes, I Would Add, And So Are Men, But Men Have This Further Advantage That They Can Also Teach Their Organs In Return.

Nature Goes Her Own Way, And All That To Us Seems An Exception Is Really According To Order.

Fools And Wise Men Are Equally Harmless. It Is The Half-fools And Half-wise That Are Dangerous.

Only The Heart Without A Stain Knows Ease.

Wood Burns Because It Has The Proper Stuff In It; And A Man Becomes Famous Because He Has The Proper Stuff In Him.

Solitude Is Fine When You Are At Peace With Yourself And Have Something Definite To Do.

The One Who Acts Is Always Without Conscience; Nobody Has A Conscience But The Contemplative Person.

Correction Does Much, But Encouragement Does More.

The Greatest Act Of Faith Takes Place When A Man Finally Decides That He Is Not God.

One Is Never Satisfied With The Portrait Of A Person That One Knows.

The Person Of Analytic Or Critical Intellect Finds Something Ridiculous In Everything. The Person Of Synthetic Or Constructive Intellect, In Almost Nothing.

Great Endowments Often Announce Themselves In Youth In The Form Of Singularity And Awkwardness.

Whatever Is The Object Of A Saint's Hope Is The Subject Of His Prayer.

He Only Earns His Freedom And His Life Who Takes Them Every Day By Storm.

The Artist May Be Well Advised To Keep His Work To Himself Till It Is Completed, Because No One Can Readily Help Him Or Advise Him With It... But The Scientist Is Wiser Not To Withhold A Single Finding Or A Single Conjecture From Publicity.

One Must Keep Repeating The Truth.

There Are Two Things Children Should Get From Their Parents: Roots And Wings.

They Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves, All These Sober People!

Passions Are Vices Or Virtues To Their Highest Powers.

What Matters In Art Is Not Thinking But Making.

True Love Is Love That Stays Constant For Ever, Whatever It's Fortune; Whether Requited Or Scored, Filled Or Sent Empty Away.

In All Times It Is Only Individuals That Have Advanced Science, Not The Age.

Truth Must Be Repeated Again And Again, Because Error Is Constantly Being Preached Round About.

Again And Again

What Is Part Of You, You Cannot Get Rid Of, Even If You Were To Throw It Away.

Someday Perhaps The Inner Light Will Shine Forth From Us, And The We'll Need No Other Light.

No Two People See The World Exactly Alike, And Different Temperaments Will Often Apply The Same Principle, Recognized By Both, Differently. Even One And The Same Person Won't Always Maintain The Same Views And Judgments: Earlier Convictions Must Give Way To Later Ones.

When We See The Many Grave-stones Which Have Fallen In, Which Have Been Defaced By The Footsteps Of The Congregation, Which Lie Buried Under The Ruins Of The Churches, That Have Themselves Crumbled Together Over Them; We May Fancy The Life After Death To Be As A Second Life, Into Which Man Enters In The Figure, Or The Picture Or The Inscription, And Lives Longer There Than When He Was Really Alive. But This Figure Also, This Second Existence, Dies Out Too, Sooner Or Later. Time Will Not Allow Himself To Be Cheated Of His Rights With The Monuments Of Men Or With Themselves.

What Government Is The Best? That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves. [ger., Welche Regierung Die Beste Sei? Diejenige Die Uns Lehrt Uns Selbst Zu Regieren.]

The Moment One Definitely Commits Oneself, Then Providence Moves, Too. All Sorts Of Things Occur To Help One That Would Never Have Otherwise Occurred...unforeseen Incidents And Meetings And Material Assistance, Which No Man Could Have Dreamed Would Have Come His Way.

For A Brave Man Deserves A Well-endowed Girl. [ger., Denn Ein Wackerer Mann Verdient Ein Begutertes Madchen.]

What One Has Wished For In Youth, In Old Age One Has In Abundance.

What Sort Of God Would It Be, Who Only Pushed From Without.

To Have More, You Must First Be More.

Fret Not Over The Irretrievable, But Ever Act As If Thy Life Were Just Begun.

Those That Are Firm In Their Will Mold The World To Themselves.

If A Man Or Woman Is Born Ten Years Sooner Or Later, Their Whole Aspect And Performance Shall Be Different.

Freedom Consists Not In Refusing To Recognize Anything Above Us, But In Respecting Something Which Is Above Us; For By Respecting It, We Raise Ourselves To It, And, By Our Very Acknowledgment, Prove That We Bear Within Ourselves What Is Higher, And Are Worthy To Be On A Level With It.

Nature Is, After All, The Only Book That Offers Important Content On Every Page.

There Is Nothing More Frightful Than An Active Ignorance. [ger., Es Ist Nichts Schrecklicher Als Eine Thatige Unwissenheit.]

Patriotism Ruins History.

The Child, Offered The Mother's Breast, Will Not In The Beginning Grab It; But Soon It Clings To It With Zest. And Thus At Wisdom's Copious Breasts You'll Drink Each Day With Greater Zest.

The Real Scholar Learns How To Evolve The Unknown From The Known, And Draws Near The Master.

The Artist Has A Twofold Relation To Nature; He Is At Once Her Master And Her Slave.

One Does Not Get To Know That One Exists Until One Rediscovers Oneself In Others.

Die Mathematiker Sind Eine Art Franzosen. Spricht Man Zu Ihnen, So übersetzen Sie Alles In Ihre Eigene Sprache, Und So Wird Es Alsobald Etwas Ganz Anderes. Mathematicians Are A Kind Of Frenchmen. Whenever You Say Anything Or Talk To Them, They Translate It Into Their Own Language, And Right Away It Is Something Completely Different.

The Flowers Are Full Of Honey, But Only The Bee Finds Out The Sweetness.

The World Is So Empty If One Thinks Only Of Mountains, Rivers And Cities; But To Know Someone Who Thinks And Feels With Us, And Who, Though Distant, Is Close To Us In Spirit, This Makes The Earth For Us An Inhabited Garden.

Those Who Know Nothing Of Foreign Languages Know Nothing Of Their Own.

He Who Does Not Expect A Million Readers Should Not Write A Line.

Time Is My Estate: To Time I'm Heir.

The Bed Of Flowers Loosens Amain, The Beauteous Snowdrops Droop O'er The Plain. The Crocus Opens Its Glowing Bud, Like Emeralds Others, Others, Like Blood. With Saucy Gesture Primroses Flare, And Roguish Violets, Hidden With Care; And Whatsoever There Stirs And Strives, The Spring's Contented, If Works And Thrives.

Nothing Is True, But That Which Is Simple.

All Of Us Have Life; Few Of Us Have An Idea Of It.

Every Second Is Of Infinite Value.

The Dangers Of Life Are Infinite, And Among Them Is Safety.

A Talent Is Formed In Stillness, A Character In The World's Torrent.

If Thou Wouldst Hear What Seemly Is And Fit, Inquire Of Noble Woman; They Can Tell, Who In Life's Common Usage Hold Their Place By Graceful Deed And Aptly Chosen Word.

To Make An Epoch In The World, Two Conditions Are Manifestly Essential-a Good Head And A Great Inheritance.

It Is Not Always Needful For Truth To Take A Definite Shape; It Is Enough If It Hovers About Us Like A Spirit And Produces Harmony; If It Is Wafted Through The Air Like The Sound Of A Bell, Grave And Kindly.

When Nature Begins To Reveal Her Open Secret To A Man, He Feels An Irresistible Longing For Her Worthiest Interpreter, Art.

The Mortal Race Is Far Too Weak Not To Grow Dizzy On Unwonted Brights. [ger., Das Sterbliche Geschlecht Ist Viel Zu Schwach In Ungewohnter Hohe Nicht Zu Schwindeln.]

A Word Spoken Is A Terrible Thing When It Suddenly Utters What The Heart Has Long Allowed.

We Are Surrounded By Abysses, But The Greatest Of All Depths Is In Our Own Heart, And An Irresistible Leaning Leads Us There. Draw Thyself From Thyself!

Is Not The Core Of Nature In The Heart Of Man?

Give Me The Benefit Of Your Convictions, If You Have Any; But Keep Your Doubts To Yourself, For I Have Enough Of My Own.

Aptitudes Are Assumed, They Should Become Accomplishments. That Is The Purpose Of All Education.

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

If You Want Someone To Develop A Specific Trait, Treat Them As Though They Already Had It.

I Can Promise To Be Upright, But Not To Be Without Bias. [ger., Aufrichtig Zu Sein Kann Ich Versprechen; Unparteiisch Zu Sein Aber Nicht.]

It Is A Very Hard And Troublesome Thing To Dispose Of Whole, Half, And Quarter-mistakes; To Sift Them And Assign The Portion Of Truth To Its Proper Place.

Take Life Too Seriously, And What Is It Worth? If The Morning Wake Us To No New Joys, If The Evening Bring Us Not The Hopes Of New Pleasures, Is It Worth While To Dress And Undress? Does The Sun Shine On Me Today That I May Reflect On Yesterday? That I May Endeavor To Foresee And Control What Can Neither Be Foreseen Nor Controlled - The Destiny Of Tomorrow?

I Hate All Explanations; They Who Make Them Deceive Either Themselves Or The Other Party,-generally Both.

It Is Commonly The Personal Character Of A Writer Which Gives Him His Public Significance. It Is Not Imparted By His Genius. Napoleon Said Of Corneille, "were He Living I Would Make Him A King;" But He Did Not Read Him. He Read Racine, Yet He Said Nothing Of The Kind Of Racine.

True Works Of Art Are A Manifestation Of The Higher Laws Of Nature.

The Credit Of Advancing Science Has Always Been Due To Individuals And Never To The Age.

My Inheritance How Lordly Wide And Fair; Time Is My Fair Seed-field, To Time I'm Heir.

Why Look For Conspiracy When Stupidity Can Explain So Much

The Miller Believes That All The Wheat Grows So That His Mill Keeps Running.

One Never Learns To Understand Truly Anything But What One Loves.

Letters Are Among The Most Significant Memorial A Person Can Leave Behind Them.

The Whole Art Of Living Consists In Giving Up Existence In Order To Exist.

There Is No Trifling With Nature; It Is Always True, Grave, And Severe; It Is Always In The Light, And The Faults And Errors Fall To Our Share. It Defies Incompetency, But Reveals Its Secrets To The Competent, The Truthful, And The Pure.

It Would Not Be Worth Your While To Reach The Age Of Seventy If All The Wisdom Of The World Were To Be Foolishness Before God.

A Life Without Love, Without The Presence Of The Beloved, Is Nothing But A Mere Magic-lantern Show. We Draw Out Slide After Slide, Swiftly Tiring Of Each, And Pushing It Back To Make Haste For The Next.

Humor Is One Of The Elements Of Genius--admirable As An Adjunct; But As Soon As It Becomes Dominant, Only A Surrogate For Genius.

Hypotheses Are The Scaffolds Which Are Erected In Front Of A Building And Removedd When The Building Is Completed. They Are Indispensable To The Worker; But The Worker Must Not Mistake The Scaffolding For The Building.

When Young, One Is Confident To Be Able To Build Palaces For Mankind, But When The Time Comes One Has One's Hands Full Just To Be Able To Remove Their Trash.

This Is The Highest Wisdom That I Own; Freedom And Life Are Earned By Those Alone Who Conquer Them Each Day Anew.

Science Arose From Poetry... When Times Change The Two Can Meet Again On A Higher Level As Friends.

We Will Burn That Bridge When We Come To It.

What Is Not Fully Understood Is Not Possessed.

I Respect The Man Who Knows Distinctly What He Wants.

Being Brilliant Is No Great Feat If You Respect Nothing.

How Can You Come To Know Yourself? Never By Thinking, Always By Doing. Try To Do Your Duty, And You'll Know Right Away What You Amount To.

One Of The Most Striking Signs Of The Decay Of Art Is The Intermixing Of Different Genres.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

A Man's Errors Are What Make Him Amiable.

Insofar As He Makes Use Of His Healthy Senses, Man Himself Is The Best And Most Exact Scientific Instrument Possible. The Greatest Misfortune Of Modern Physics Is That Its Experiments Have Been Set Apart From Man, As It Were, Physics Refuses To Recognize Nature In Anything Not Shown By Artificial Instruments, And Even Uses This As A Measure Of Its Accomplishments.

Self-knowledge Comes From Knowing Other Men.

That Which Is Eternal In Woman Lifts Us Above.

It Is A Maxim Of Wise Government To Treat People Not As They Should Be But As They Actually Are.

Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine.

Life Is Too Short

All Intelligent Thoughts Have Already Been Thought; What Is Necessary Is Only To Try To Think Them Again.

Gifts Come From Above In Their Own Peculiar Forms. [ger., Die Gaben Kommen Von Oben Herab, In Ihren Eignen Gestalten.]

Because Everyone Uses Language To Talk, Everyone Thinks He Can Talk About Language.

Every Person Above The Ordinary Has A Certain Mission That They Are Called To Fulfill.

Treat A Person As They Are, They Will Remain So. Treat A Person The Way That Person Can Be And Is Capable Of Being And That Person Will Become As He Or She Can Be And Should Be.

Who Longs In Solitude To Live, Ah! Soon His Wish Will Gain: Men Hope And Love, Men Get And Give, And Leave Him To His Pain.

When Two People Are Really Happy About One Another One Can Generally Assume They Are Mistaken.

Life Is The Childhood Of Our Immortality.

The Beginning Of Faith Is The Beginning Of Fruitfulness; But The Beginning Of Unbelief, However Glittering, Is Empty.

Experience Is Only Half Of Experience.

When Translating One Must Proceed Up To The Intranslatable; Only Then One Becomes Aware Of The Foreign Nation And The Foreign Tongue.

A Judge Who Cannot Punish, In The End Associates Themselves With The Criminal.

I Have Come To The Frightening Conclusion That I Am The Decisive Element. It Is My Personal Approach That Creates The Climate.

When We Treat Man As He Is, We Make Him Worse Than He Is; When We Treat Him As If He Already Were What He Potentially Could Be, We Make Him What He Should Be.

Age Childish Makes, They Say, But 'tis Not True; We're Only Genuine Children Still In Age's Season. [ger., Das Alter Macht Nicht Kindisch, Wie Man Spricht, Es Findet Uns Nur Noch Als Wahre Kinder.]

Happy The Man Who Early Learns The Wide Chasm That Lies Between His Wishes And His Powers.

If You Must Tell Me Your Opinions, Tell Me What You Believe In. I Have Plenty Of Doubts Of My Own.

I Am Part Of The Part That Once Was Everything, Part Of The Darkness Which Gave Birth To Light… Mephistopheles, From Faust.

Who Strives Always To The Utmost, Him Can We Save.

Clever People Are Always The Best Conversations Lexicon.

The Light Is There, And Colors Surround Us. However, If There Were No Light Nor Colors In Our Own Eye, We Wouldn't Perceive Such Things Outside Of Us.

Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

It Used To Happen, And Still Happens, To Me To Take No Pleasure In A Work Of Art At The First Sight Of It, Because It Is Too Much For Me; But If I Suspect Any Merit In It, I Try To Get At It; And Then I Never Fail To Make The Most Gratifying Discoveries--to Find New Qualities In The Work Itself And New Faculties In Myself.

There Is Not A Single Outward Mark Of Courtesy That Does Not Have A Deep Moral Basis.

What Is My Life If I Am No Longer Useful To Others.

Stupidity Is Without Anxiety.

A Good Man, Through Obscurest Aspirations Has Still An Instinct Of The One True Way.

Everything That Frees Our Spirit Without Giving Us Control Of Ourselves Is Ruinous.

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