Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

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Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel" in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social political moral and religious questions.