Vulgar words in Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 (Page 1)
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Awaiting the widow in her library one day, his attention was attracted by an engraving representing Schiller at Carlsbad seated upon an ass.
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"A man like that," he exclaimed, "riding upon an ass!
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Later on it occurred to him that Balaam too was mounted on an ass, and he derived a measure of consolation from the thought that Schiller was a prophet as well.
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"She has told your grace a fancy tale--I have had nothing to do with it; if you made an ass of yourself in the baker's cellar, that was your own fault."