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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
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Jicin
Police
Stop
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Scandal
Begins

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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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