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It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
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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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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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
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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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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
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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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There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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