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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man (1788)

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed — nature never pretends.

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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

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Good can be done by the bad — but the good alone can be good.

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