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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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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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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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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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All our distinctions ire accidental beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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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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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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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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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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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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