The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
- G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg