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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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