If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing…

Georg C. 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. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.
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