“Everything persecutes him; all things go against the guilty. No calamity by itself. Everything went badly with me, when I harboured revenge, but [I] changed, and left everything in God's hands: since then all happily.”

Nemesis Divina (1734)

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Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist 1707–1778

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