A Sad Waste
Kästner once criticised a book like this:—“This book is printed on the worst kind of paper. What a pity to waste so much good paper!”
Slightly Misunderstood
A stranger in München asked a gentleman where the painter Kaulbach lived.
“Kaulbach? The painter Kaulbach?” said he. “I don’t know the man, but if you need a painter, I can recommend painter X. very much; he painted my landlord’s doors and windows very well and very cheap.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Your book is full of donkey ears again,” said his father to the little Lessing.
“Why father, that book has a perfect right to donkey ears,” answered the future great dramatist and critic.