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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
Illustrator
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Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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