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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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to him from the human breast; understanding
raises him, through the magnificence of creation,
up to God, without his forgetting that he stands
fast on the firm earth. He is mighty, he is
happy, as few are. We will not place him in
the stocks of misconstruction, for pity and
lamentation; we merely paint his symbol, dip
into the colours on the world’s least attractive
side, and obtain it most comprehensibly from

                 "THE SULTAN AND SCHEREZADE."

See – that is it! Do not behead Scherezade!



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