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The public seldom forgive twice.
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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Half talent is no talent.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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