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

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

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it. – Proverb

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

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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