"Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays."
"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
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Source: Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus (2013). “The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus”, p.13, Macmillan
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