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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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