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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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Physicist
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Premeditation
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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