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> [“Dear dad, in consequence of a trivial altercation with a Captain Tapper, of Wild Violet Lodge, whom I happened to step upon in the corridor of a train, I had a pistol duel this morning in the woods near Kalugano…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/dear-dad-in-consequence-of-a-trivial-altercation-with-a-captain/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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