Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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