To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at l…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 30, 1799.
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