Jean Paul Richter

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    Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
    —Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)

    Martha, your father told me something once, a long time ago, when I first started to work with him: In the war of science, many people must die before any victory can be won.
    Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Dr. Paul Ames (Bruce Bennett)

    Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    —Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)