A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. ✨ …

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 91, 1799.
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