by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Verwunderer
Language: German (Deutsch)
Mehr wett ich nicht, als hundert Thaler,
daß der ein eingemachter Praler,
der alles, was er sieht, veracht;
doch leg' ich tausend gegen hundert,
daß der nicht den Compass erdacht,
der über alles sich verwundert.
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The astonished
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
I bet not more than one hundred Thaler
to a preserved praler,
that all that he sees, he despises;
but I put thousands against a hundred
that he who does not use a compass
is surprised about everything.
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