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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.

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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 trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
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