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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

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
Elective
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Nobility

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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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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
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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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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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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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