Quote by Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. – Welsh Proverb

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. – Robert Benchley

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