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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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