He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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