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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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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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