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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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
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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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