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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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