What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing bu…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 7, 1799.
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