Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
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