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With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

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
Playwright
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Father of German Literature
Find
Fortune
Breeze
Like
Bears
Strings
Lute
Sun
Bright
Overcast
Friendship
Gentle
Tighten
Prove
Plenty
Frown
Clear
Ten
Firmament
Friends
Bear
Pitch
Keep
Sky
Stretch

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