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The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Age: 52 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 22
Died: 1781
Died: February 15
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
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But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
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It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.
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