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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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København
Give
Littles
Lung
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Sore
Giving
Lungs
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Finger
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Doe
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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