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What an ass may say of me,
that I do not heed.

— Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

Was von mir, ein Esel spricht,
Das acht’ ich nicht.

Original text (German)

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Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2988 | Cf. Phaedrus, The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him

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