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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.
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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
University Teacher
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København
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Hate
Doe
Every
Kind
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Flattery
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Certainly
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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