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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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
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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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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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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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