Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish … - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and philosopher.

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

Kenntnis der Mittel ohne eine eigentliche Anwendung, ja ohne Gabe und Willen, sie anzuwenden, ist, was man jetzt gemeiniglich Gelehrsamkeit nennt.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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