It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's …

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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