HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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wine is always exquisite. When M.
Thiers speaks, no one else can put in a
single word. Only when he is in the
act of shaving can any one hope to find
in him an attentive auditor; only so
long as the razor is at his throat is he
silent and ready to listen to another's
talk.
THE TWO INDISPENSABLES.
I can dispense with everybody in this
world except, possibly, the sun and myself;
for without these two personages,
I can imagine no spring, nor any
zephyrs of springtime, no grisettes, and
no German literature! The whole
world would else be nothing but a yawning
void, the shadow of a cipher, the
dream of a flea, a poem by Carl Streckfuss!
THE
RUSSIANS.
On the banks of the Bosphorus shall
their Emperor bring all the nations of
the earth under subjection to his sceptre
of thongs —that sceptre suppler and
stronger than steel, which is called the
knout.