If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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