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The New Rake's Progress
"ISOLATION."
Peace (attending the Inter-Parliamentary Congress at Berlin.) "Everybody else seems to be my friend; why do you stand aloof?"
German Kaiser. "But haven't I always sais that I was your friend?"
Peace. "Yes; but can't you do something to prove it?"
September 23, 1908.
⁂ The Kaiser as the platonic friend of Peace.