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Jacob Balde
(4 Jan 1604 - 9 Aug 1668)
German clergyman and poet whose works were written in Latin, the international language of the cultured classes in his time, which limited his wider familiarity as a popular poet.
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Science Quotes by Jacob Balde (1)
What difference is there between a smoker and a suicide, except that the one takes longer to kill himself than the other.
— Jacob Balde
Dic Tnickene Trunkenheit (Drunk without Drinking) (1658). Quoted in Count Egon Corti, A History of Smoking, translated from the German by Paul England (1931), 119.
