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Frederick Engels’ “Confession”, early April 1868
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Written: in London, early April 1868;
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43, p. 541
First published: in Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 32, Moscow, 1964
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43, p. 541
First published: in Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 32, Moscow, 1964
Keywords : Biography
| Question | Answer |
| Your favourite virtue | |
| in man quality | jollity |
| in man | to mind his own business |
| in woman | not to mislay things |
| Chief characteristic | knowing everything by halves |
| Idea of happiness | Château Margaux 1848 |
| Idea of misery | to go to a dentist |
| The vice you excuse | excess of any sort |
| The vice you detest | Cant |
| Your aversion | affected stuck up woman |
| The characters you most dislike | Spurgeon |
| Favourite occupation | chaffing and being chaffed |
| — Hero | none |
| — Heroine | too many to name one |
| — Poet | Reineke de Vos, Shakespeare, Ariosto, etc. |
| — Prose writer | Goethe, Lessing, Dr Samelson |
| — Flower | Blue Bell |
| — Colour | any one not Aniline |
| — Dish | Cold: Salad, hot: Irish Stew |
| — Maxim | not to have any |
| — Motto | take it aisy |
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