 as well as having been "gifted with a quick wit and facile mind" and of a gay temperament, As well as being able to "stutter in twenty languages".He had a great enjoyment of wine and other "bourgeois pleasures".Engels favored forming romantic relationships with that of the proletariat, and found a long term partner in a working class woman named Mary Burns, they never married, and after her death, Engels was romantically involved with her younger sister Lydia Burns.