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Quote by Karl Kraus
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus

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Experience
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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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War
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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. – Karl Kraus

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Hate
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Irony
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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. – Edwin P. Whipple

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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down? – Author Unknown

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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – Polly Toynbee

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I dont want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when Im 70. – Pharrell Williams

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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. – Bruce Barton

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