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Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
Novelist
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
Life
Lessens
Delicacy
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Woman
Men
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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