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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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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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