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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
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Jicin
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Polymaths
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Walks

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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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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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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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