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“Evil men have no songs.”[1]—How is it that the Russians have songs?
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“German intellect”; for eighteen years this has been a contradictio in adjecto.
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By seeking the beginnings of things, a man becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards: in the end he also believes backwards.
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Contentment preserves one even from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well-dressed ever caught cold?—No, not even when she had scarcely a rag to her back.
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