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The Princess and the Pea (1835)
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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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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Born:
April 2, 1805
Died:
August 5, 1875
(aged 70)
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