Mom Says It Best: 'I Bear No Malice'
I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. It's from a collection called "Grooks." Hein, a Dutch philosopher, mathematician, scientist and author, wrote these brief poems that are elegant in their simplicity and succinctly convey irony, parody and satire. Subscribe Hein invented Grooks in the 1930s, but they didn't gain widespread popularity until shortly after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in April 1940 when Hein began submitting them to Politiken, a daily newspaper, to help lift the spirits his fellow ...
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