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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

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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Walter Benjamin
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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Quotations
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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Other Quotes from
Argument & Debate
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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

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

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Argument & Debate

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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Argument & Debate

Behind every argument is someones ignorance. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Argument & Debate

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