A collection of quotes by G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb.
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.