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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
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Gravity
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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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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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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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Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
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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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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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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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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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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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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
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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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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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