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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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