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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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