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“If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.”

Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

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“The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.”

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“The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.”

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“I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.”

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“The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.”

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“How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.”

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“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.”

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“Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.”

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