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QUOTATION:The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
ATTRIBUTION:Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus’s Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976). Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (Vienna, March 31, 1909).
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