A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense
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A selected quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise
Men are but children of a larger growth.