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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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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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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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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