Multatuli

“Goodreads-Multatuli”

“Gutenberg-Multatuli”

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“Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet… Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that.”

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”

“I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.”

“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture”

“Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.”