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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

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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Attitude
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Walter Benjamin
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Argument & Debate

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. – Proverb

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Argument & Debate

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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Argument & Debate

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. – Aristotle

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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. – Paul Harris

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[W]hen the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, youll become happy if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher. – Socrates

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