"Man is always partial and is quite right……" — Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial."
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- I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another…
- Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason.…
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- Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
- The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
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