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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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