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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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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Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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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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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
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In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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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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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.
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