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When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
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
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Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
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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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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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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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