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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Library, Principles
"'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Hands, People

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Children, Age
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Anger, Dark

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Peace, Passion
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 30, 1799.

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