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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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