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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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