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WRITERS > journalist, critic, playwright, poet > Karl Kraus
A child learns...
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Source: The Discovery of the North Pole (first published in Die Fackel, Vienna, 1909; repr. in In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. by Harry Zohn, 1976).
-- Karl Kraus, (Apr 28 1874-1936), Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, poet; He has been compared to Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language.