Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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