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Medicine: Your money and your life!

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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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Jicin
Medicine
Money
Life

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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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