Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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