Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

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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