To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain e…

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ✨ Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel. Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ✨ Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel. Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.

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