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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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