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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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