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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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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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