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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

G.C. Lichtenberg

G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742–1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook E," aph. 76, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).

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