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Johann Kaspar Lavater

(15 Nov 1741 - 2 Jan 1801)

Swiss writer.

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Conscience is wiser than science.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

In George Augustus Lofton, Character Sketches (1893), 344.

See also: | Conscience (7) | Science (463) | Wisdom (44)

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 105.

See also: | Best (3) | First (4) | Genius (57) | Last (3)

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