Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.Georg C. Lichtenberg
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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