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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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
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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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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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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