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— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann"That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy."
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Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
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