| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33050 |
| QUOTATION: | The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Karl Kraus (18741936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Krauss Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976). Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (Vienna, March 31, 1909). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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