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• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. -- Heinrich Heine
• Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one.
  To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess....
• Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.
  [Bien sur, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier.] -- Heinrich Heine, 1856....
• Oh, what lies there are in kisses. Heinrich Heine
• Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. -- Heinrich Heine
• The Lord created the world in six days and on the seventh day, the Lord rested.
  On the eighth day, the Lord started answering the complaints....
• Mark this well, you proud men of action! You are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
  -- Heinrich Heine...
• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid -- Heinrich Heine