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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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