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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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