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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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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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