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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
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Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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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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'We only have two things to worry about...... One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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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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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
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Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
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Many species of wit are quite mechanical these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.
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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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