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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.
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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Many species of wit are quite mechanical these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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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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When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
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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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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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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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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
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