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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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