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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.

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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Dependence
Hope
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Pamper
Disappointment
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