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“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.” quote by Mikhail Lermontov — Download Open image

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

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In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

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