- Gotthold Lessing
(01/22/1729 – 02/15/1781)
German dramatist
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"Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
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"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
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| "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark." |  |
| "It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the most cruelty." |  |
| "I can hold a note as long as the Chase Manhattan Bank." |  |
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
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"You know what I say about modern westerns—they ruined everything but the horse."
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 (with John Wayne) |
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