"Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz
"Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations."
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
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