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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
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City of Zurich
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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