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If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back.
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There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs.
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.
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Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
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It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
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What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Karl Kraus
Born:
April 28, 1874
Died:
June 12, 1936
(aged 62)
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