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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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