You English are always so frivolous, said the Princess. In Russia we have too many troubles to permit of our being light-hearted.
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“The nigger Professor” they called me, “with a plan to educate the blacks and to put them above the whites”; “to put the bottom rail on top”; “to subvert Anglo‐Saxon civilization.”
[‘]The score, however, was only 10 thalers, 4 groschen, 6 pfennigs’ (30 shillings, 5 pence, and 2 or perhaps 3 quarter-farthings), ‘for what I had run-up in eight weeks[.]’
Come in! says the gray spider to the house-fly; I have entertained a great many flies. I have plenty of room, fine meals and a gay life. … Philosophers have written volumes about my antennae and cephalothorax.
