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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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