He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Self-improvement
Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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