"As my wife is a civil servant thinks
first An official lives long.
second As long as he lives, he has a generate reasonable salary.
third Is he sick, he is represented. The more the better.
4th Bath travel is guaranteed.
5th The MRP is inexhaustible fund and is matched only by the goodness of his manager.
6th Work chimera.
7th Office hours are held or not held. If they are kept, so changes the reading the national newspaper with the Voss.
8th Errors are unimportant, as long as the outside one's own infallibility and the state is preserved.
9th To the religious festival and King's birthday, the official must be healthy. (White bandage.)
10th Met to do so, doubled the King, the widow pension from the fund box. For the girls: education funds, for the sons. Three cadet vacancies " (Theodor Fontane)
Background: A friend gave 1876 Fontane a post as secretary of the Academy of the Arts, which is not only a civil servant salary, but also an appropriate age pension would enter. But after a few Months Fontane asks for his release because he does not cope with the work - he had accepted a job as a property manager, he would not come above behaviors.
(Image: Theodor Fontane, 1883, painting by Carl Breitbach)
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