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Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

“He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.”

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Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and philosopher, born on November 15, 1741, in Zurich, Switzerland, and died on January 2, 1801. He is known for his unique poetic style and profound insights into human nature. more

“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.”

Character Home Together Sides Too Much Doors Color Oil Excellent Ingredients Connecting Good And Bad Stamina Incomparable Vinegar Insufferable

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“Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.”

Character Certain Dresses Court Flaws Buttons Elegance Trifling Ragged

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“Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.”

Men Character Joy Interest Grief Prosperity Indifferent Joy And Grief

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“Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.”

Running Three Asks Interest Mere Curiosity

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“Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.”

May Littles Force Empty Curiosity Load Intrusion Impetuous

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“As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.”

Body House Enemy Advice Treats Dresses Tables Your Body

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“Dress is an index of your contents.”

Dresses

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