Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ✨ Aphori…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 25, 1799.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 25, 1799.

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