Famous Quotes | A child learns to discard his...

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. - Karl Kraus
Attribution: Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. Harry Zohn (1976). “The Discovery of the North Pole,” first published in Die Fackel (Vienna, 1909).

Categories: Children, Satirist

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