“The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.”

— Heinrich Heine

Lutetia; or, Paris. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII (1842)

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

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