"Frau Edouard Devrient: "Do tell me, who is the stupid fellow sitting next to me?" Felix Mendelssohn (behind his napkin): "The stupid fellow next to you is the philosopher Hegel.""

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Paul Johnson, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), pp. 817–818

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Paul Johnson, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), pp. 817–818