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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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