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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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