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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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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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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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