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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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