The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 20, 1799.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 20, 1799.

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