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so was up early. - Sunny day went to Kouter to buy some potted flowers for my mother and caused a small mob between two three men who wanted to carry the pots and started swearing and cursing each other. The florist lost his head so much because I [[strikethrough]] ordered [[/strikethrough]] bought without hashing for a few cents less. I [[underline]] noticed he could not add and had to repeat it three four times! Weak minded people, [[/underline]] ready to flare up at any time! Last night I was thinking of founding a [[strikethrough]] substantial [[/strikethrough]] fund for an annual substantial prize to be awarded to a man in Flanders who had
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shown the hightest test of character - X the greatest difficulty would be to find a jury among a people that is so far short in character to award suitably a prize for character. Most of the men who would come forward for [[?]] this jury would be fools, of conventional important selfsatisfied and conceited and very ignorant except on some special matters Went to Paul Federing and had a long talk about conditions in Flanders. His man is undoubdetly a man of ideals but he is getting older and older yet does not become ente-
[[in left margin]] X this was the reflexion of Prof. Paul Fredering!
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