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" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
Karl Kraus
Scandal
Begins
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" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
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" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
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" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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