"But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have……" — Heinrich Heine
"But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow..."
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172 Quotes by Heinrich Heine
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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