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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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