The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so man…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.
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