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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Date of Birth:
July 1, 1742
Date of Death:
February 24, 1799
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