A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them. . .G. C. Lichtenberg
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read Don't we also write them for employment in the household For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes.
G. C. Lichtenberg
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
G. C. Lichtenberg
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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