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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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And so they could see she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hans Christian Andersen
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Born:
April 2, 1805
Died:
August 5, 1875
(aged 70)
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