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Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Quotes
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ...
- Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to...
- Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the...
- Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. ...
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together....
- He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to...
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage: he won't encounter many rivals. ...
- I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than...
- I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than...
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change...
- It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that...
- Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes...
- Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. ...
- The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle....
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. ...
- To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. ...
- To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of...
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Yankee Doodle