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Слушать(AI)A Warning
You will print such books as these?
Then you're lost, my friend, that's certain.
If you wish for gold and honor,
Write more humbly—bend your knees!
Yes, you must have lost your senses,
Thus to speak before the people,
Thus to dare to speak of
And of potentates and princes!
Friend, you're lost, so it appears:
For the princes have long arms,
And the preachers have long tongues,—And the masses have long ears!
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his ear
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