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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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. – Karl Kraus

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

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

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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. – Ella Maillart

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