The Doll
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Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke...

— Bolesław Prus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke..." in the context of "The Doll" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bolesław Prus

About Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus was the pen-name of Aleksander Głowacki (August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), a Polish journalist and novelist known as the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature.