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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Age: 52 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 22
Died: 1781
Died: February 15
Critic
Dramaturge
Journalist
Librarian
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Philosopher
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Poet
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Father of German Literature
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