"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
"How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another."
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Source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
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