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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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
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Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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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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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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The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
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