“Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.”

— Heinrich Heine

Of Savoye, appointed ambassador to Frankfurt by Lamartine (1848); as quoted in Insults : A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits (1941) by Max John Herzberg, p. 74

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German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856

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