A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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  1. If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

  2. When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

  3. ...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

  4. It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

  5. The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

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