Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - It is a pity that one...
Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entrails of authors so as to discover what they have eaten.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: to eat
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Quotes for: writer
The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...
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