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In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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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
Gravity
Shining
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Sallies
Fool
Elephant
Shines
Elephants
Polite
Awkward

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That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, I have enough, is the highest attainment of philosophy.
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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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