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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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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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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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