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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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