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LONGEVITY OF GERMAN POTENTATES.
People cannot understand why our
German princes live to such great ages:
they are afraid to die, they fear lest
they should meet Napoleon again in the
other world.
THE TYROLESE.
The Tyrolese are handsome, sprightly,
honest, brave, and of inscrutable shallowness
of intellect. They are a
healthy race of men, perhaps because
they are too stupid to be sickly.
GERMAN HATE.
We do not hate one another as you
French do about mere trifles, because of
wounded vanity, on account of an epigram,
or of an unreturned visiting card:
no, we hate in our enemies the deepest,
most essential thing, namely, their
thought. As in your love so in your
hatred, you French are hasty, superhcial.
We Germans hate thoroughly,
lastingly. Too honest, perhaps too unskilful,
to revenge ourselves by speedy
perfidy, we hate till our last breath.