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“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg · Men

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

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