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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes: If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
         

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.


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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
         



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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.



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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.



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