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Works of Frederick Engels 1868
Frederick Engels’ “Confession”
Written: in London, early April 1868;
Source: MECW Volume 43, p. 541;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.
First published: in Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 32, Moscow, 1964
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 F. Engels