Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism. ✨ Aphorisms. Boo…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 144, 1799.
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