Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck
My German experiences extended through many years and increased my predilection, not so much perhaps for the individual as for the simple social life, and above all, the comparatively high standard of humanising culture and conduct, what the Germans themselves call Sitte und Bildung, to be found even under a rough exterior, more or less wherever the German tongue is spoken. The poet was pointed out to me who had declined the pension of a king; I met the historian who had refused to collaborate with an emperor; as also the soldier who had led a million armed men to victory, and who had yet remained a simple-hearted man, content in old age to claim, like Goethe's Faust, the status of a peasant.
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