"He is a lesser figure than X”-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse. (Elias Canetti)

"He is a lesser figure than X”-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.

Elias Canetti

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