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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. - Walter Benjamin

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Past, the
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Manners
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Argument & Debate
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. – Antisthenes

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Argument & Debate

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop

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Argument & Debate

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about – Robert Benchley

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Argument & Debate

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I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybodys presents – everybodys – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. – Tommy Hilfiger

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We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. – R. D. Laing

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