Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Doris Lessing
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“The worst of superstitions is to think One's own most bearable.”
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”
“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”
“Man, whence is he? / Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”
“Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.”
“I, who ne'er Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing, And that for others. Borrowing's much the same As begging; just as lending upon usury Is much the same as thieving.”