“One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916, p. 61
“I hate to complain… No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
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For a little while. She was a royal child. She knew that golden shoes pinch and there is no escaping them. <!-- p. 94
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