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More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.

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  2. He is not a household name. He is something rarer: a name savored by household names.

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  3. We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.

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