He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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