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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
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Physicist
Scientist
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København
Every
Kind
Hates
Flattery
Earnest
Certainly
Says
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Doe
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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