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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.

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
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Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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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.
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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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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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.
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