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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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