We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.G. C. Lichtenberg
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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It may not be natural for man to walk on two legs, but it was a noble invention.
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
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People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
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