The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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