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Doe Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
- Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps…
- He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
- Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before…
- I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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