You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
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In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.Mary Antin
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.
Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
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My friendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions these were the materials out of which I built my after life, in the open workshop of America.
Mary Antin
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