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Better Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be…
- Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
- It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about…
- Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
- If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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