“To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.”

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Raison annehmen kann niemand, der nicht schon welche hat.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 23.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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