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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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