He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of bein…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.
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