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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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