“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

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German scientist, satirist 1742–1799

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