There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: att…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 81, 1799.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 81, 1799.

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