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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. -

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children dont come into the world. – Karl Kraus

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesnt know how wide it is, hell jump and six times out of ten hell make it. – Proverb

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles. – Victor Hugo

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal

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