Thread by @comradarjun

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Marx's replies to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura in 1865. First Published in International Review of Social History, 1956. Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

Your favourite virtue … Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man … Strength

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Your favourite virtue in woman … Weakness
Your chief characteristic … Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness … To fight
Your idea of misery … Submission
The vice you excuse most … Gullibility

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The vice you detest most … Servility
Your aversion … Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation … Book-worming
Favourite poet … Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer … Diderot
Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler

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Favourite flower … Daphne
Favourite colour … Red
Favourite name … Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish … Fish
Favourite maxim … Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, Terence]
Favourite motto … De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted]

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