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"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."
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"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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