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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Age: 66 †
Born: 1728
Born: December 8
Died: 1795
Died: October 7
Botanist
Physician
Writer
Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Superfluities
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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