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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

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Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Critic

Born: January 22nd, 1729

Died: February 15th, 1781

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