If countries were named after the words you first hear when… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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