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“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

Hector Hugh Munro

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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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