"You may charge me with murder — or want of sense - (we are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence was never among my crimes!"I said it in Hebrew — I said it in Dutch — I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"
January 1, 1970
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