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64 on the heels of riches, he soon attained the highest dignities which the town of Rotenburg could bestow on so worthy a citizen. From this time it has become a proverb there, which still remains in vogue, when the people of Rotenburg wish to describe a person in prosperous circumstances, to say, that he is as rich as the son-in-law of Peter Block, the cook.