HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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THE FAIR
SEX.
Women have unfortunately only one
way of making us happy, while they
have thirty thousand different modes of
rendering us miserable
Nothing wounds a man so keenly as a
woman's little pin-pricks. We are prepared
for slashing swordstrokes, and are
tickled in the most ticklish parts. Oh
the women! We must needs forgive
them much for they love much, and also
many ! Their hatred is really a species
of love that has become apostate. They
often try to do us an injury, because in
doing so they think to please some
other man.
ROBESPIERRE.
Maximilian Robespierre, the great
citizen of the Rue Saint Honoie, had, it
is true, his sudden attacks of destructiveness
when it was a question of the
monarchy, and his frame was violently
convulsed when the fit of regicidal
epilepsy was on; but as soon as it came
to be a question about the Supreme Being,
he wiped the white froth from his
lips, washed the blood from his hands,
donned his blue Sunday coat with shining
metal buttons, and stuck a nosegay
in the bosom of his broad vest.