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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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