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I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

Heinrich Heine

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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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