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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Best State

By Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)

Translation of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

HOW the best state to know? It is found out:

Like the best woman—that least talked about.